{"id":72282,"date":"2025-08-06T10:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T10:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72282"},"modified":"2025-08-06T10:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T10:04:13","slug":"huriwa-hails-dss-boss-ajayi-for-human-rights-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/06\/huriwa-hails-dss-boss-ajayi-for-human-rights-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"HURIWA Hails DSS Boss Ajayi for Human Rights Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has lauded the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Mr. Oluwatosin Ajayi, for championing reforms that promote human rights and the rule of law.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement by its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, HURIWA described the agency\u2019s recent actions as \u201ca pleasantly surprising and deeply encouraging shift\u201d under Ajayi\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>The group noted that the DSS has begun compensating victims of wrongful detention and is showing greater institutional transparency; a sharp contrast to its previously criticized practices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s rare for the human rights community to commend a security agency long linked with arbitrary detention and abuse of power,\u201d Onwubiko said. \u201cAjayi\u2019s early steps have exceeded expectations and opened new doors for engagement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>HURIWA urged sustained reforms and called on other security agencies to emulate the DSS\u2019s evolving approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has lauded the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Mr. Oluwatosin Ajayi, for championing reforms that promote human rights and the rule of law. In a statement by its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, HURIWA described the agency\u2019s recent actions as \u201ca [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":72283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72284,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72282\/revisions\/72284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}