 The spokesperson of the Department of State Services, D.S.S. Peter Afunaya, has denied involvement in the alleged abduction of the president of Ejo Youth Council, I.Y.C. Peter Timothy Igbefa. Igbefa had been kidnapped on Tuesday after he was linked to a protest in Abuja, Nigeria's capital. The I.Y.C. had issued a one-week automaton to the federal government to reconstitute the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, N.D.D.C. and Igbefa told all staff of multinational oil companies in the south-south to vacate the region until the board of N.D.D.C. is inaugurated. But reacting to the news, Afunaya distanced the agency from the incident. He said in quote, the D.S.S. has nothing to do with the alleged arrest or whisking away of I.Y.C. president, comrade Peter Timothy Igbefa, by suspected masked men. End of quote.