Manhunt for El-Rufai: SSS Finally Secures Warrant of Arrest

 The State Security Service (SSS) has
finally secured a warrant of arrest for the
Deputy National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nasir El-Rufai and
had now launched a manhunt for him. According to Premium Times, a spokesperson of
the agency confirmed this in the evening of January
24, 2014, Friday. The SSS invaded a second house in Abuja, believed to belong to the former minister in their
desperate bid to arrest him. Earlier, in the afternoon, the operatives stormed El- Rufia's first house in the Maitama District of Abuja In the latest siege on another property, also in the
Maitama District, the operatives were said to have
beaten up some private guards for refusing them
entry. Marylyn Ogar, the spokesperson of the SSS,
confirmed in a telephone conversation that the
operatives visited Mr. El-Rufai's second house to
arrest him, but denied that anyone was beaten. "We went to the first place, nobody was beaten
up. How will we go to the second place and
beat people up?!" she said. She further revealed that the SSS got an arrest
warrant demanded by Mr. El-Rufai, but could
not find him to personally serve him the
document.

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