{"id":15617,"date":"2019-02-23T20:41:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T20:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=15617"},"modified":"2019-02-23T20:41:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T20:41:22","slug":"dss-sacks-personnel-for-taking-bribe-on-election-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=15617","title":{"rendered":"DSS sacks personnel for taking bribe on election duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of State Services (DSS) has dismissed of one of its staff, Jaja Otelemaba, for taking bribe from motorists while on election duty in Ekiti.<br \/>\nMr Peter Afunanya, Public Relations Officer of the Service, in a statement on Saturday in Abuja, said the officer was seen on\u00a0 social media where he was negotiating with a motorist for financial patronage.<br \/>\n\u201cThe fact is that when the news broke, the Service initiated a line of investigative actions.<br \/>\n\u201cThese include the search and identification of the said officer; his withdrawal from the duty post and issuance of a memo as applicable to his cadre and rank,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nHe said that Otelemaba was tried in an orderly room and summarily dismissed in line with the Service\u2019s disciplinary procedures.<br \/>\nThe spokesman said that the dismissal was in accordance with the Director General of the Service\u2019s commitment to promote discipline in the Service.<br \/>\nHe said that his stance on issues concerning discipline has continued to prove his intolerance for misconduct and discreditable behaviour.<br \/>\n\u201dThe Service reaffirms its commitment to professionalism, excellence and the rule of law.<br \/>\n\u201cThe DSS, as usual, rededicates itself to the security of the ongoing electoral exercise and reassures the nation of its sustained transparency and accountability in dealing with citizens,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nBy <strong>NAN<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of State Services (DSS) has dismissed of one of its staff, Jaja Otelemaba, for taking bribe from motorists while on election duty in Ekiti. Mr Peter Afunanya, Public Relations Officer of the Service, in a statement on Saturday in Abuja, said the officer was seen on\u00a0 social media where he was negotiating with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":11485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}