According to Amnesty International: "In June 2013, a joint team of DSS and army came to arrest Modu Abubakar (not his real name), a 23-year-old student, at his house in Yola. He was not at home and so they threatened to arrest his mother. She promised that they would report as soon as he was back. Later that day his father accompanied Modu to the DSS station in Yola, where the DSS accused Modu of “offering suspicious people a place to stay” and detained him. His father repeatedly called DSS but never received any information. "After one month, an assistant director of DSS called and said I should come. He asked for N150,000. I said no, where can I get that money? He said I should come back when I get the money. There was a time I went there, he said he would lock me up." After Modu's father was told his son was transferred he also searched the nearby prisons but could not find him and all security agencies denied knowing anything about his case. According to information obtained by Amnesty International, as of August 2013, Modu was alive and in military detention. A photo showing Modu holding a placard with his name, was among 81 photos of detainees in 23 Armoured Brigade military detention, which a senior military officer gave to Amnesty International. All were taken in the detention facility, the officer said. According to the metadata on the photo, it was taken on 7 August 2013. To date, however, Modu has not been released and the family has not received any further information regarding his fate or whereabouts. A senior military source with knowledge about Yola detention facility told Amnesty International that DSS has handed over many suspects to the military in Yola. He said many of these suspects had died in custody." ^[+]