FCT Police quells violence as DSS agent kills designer

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A trader in the market, who did not want her name in print for fear of victimisation, said some of the fashion designer's colleagues, who learnt about the matter intervened but that their interference did not go down well with the DSS personnel.

Officers of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command, on Thursday night, quelled a violent protest that erupted following the alleged killing of a fashion designer by personnel of the Department of State Services, who shot sporadically and injured several others.

She noted that the personnel was arrested and detained by the police after he allegedly shot and killed the fashion designer. Responding to the development in a statement on Thursday, the spokesperson for the FCT Police Command, SP Josephine Adeh said, “In an incident at Garki International Market on September 7, 2023, an altercation arose between market occupants and certain individuals, including a DSS personnel and a tailor named Muhammad Habibu.

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