Lawan Daura Ag DG SSS
The changes at the Department of State
Services (DSS), Nigeria’s secret police,
entered another phase during the week,
with new postings and a series of
reversals.
DSS spokesperson, Marilyn Ogar, who
was until recently, DSS deputy director,
public relations, was transferred to
Maiduguri, Borno State.
The posting has however been put on
hold, following insinuations that it was
“punitive.”
Ogar, as spokesperson, was responsible
for defending the activities of the agency
in the media and she is believed to be
paying for some of her pronouncements,
notably in the face-off with the Bring
Back Our Girls movement and the DSS
raids on the Lagos office of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) last year.
She has already lost her promotion,
following the nullification of the recent
exercise.
“Right now, she is just hanging around in
Abuja, awaiting the next order,” a source
at the agency told an online platform, the
Cable.
President Muhammadu Buhari recently
appointed Lawal Musa Daura as the
acting DSS director-general, following the
resignation of Ita Ekpenyong, who was
reportedly asked to go because of the
alleged “partisanship” of the agency under
former President Goodluck Jonathan.
Also, about 45 new state directors who
were promoted under Jonathan, have lost
their new ranks as their promotions have
been reversed. Buhari refused to swear
them in last Thursday, an indication that
the promotion exercise had been annulled.
Daura has also ordered the sack of fresh
graduates who were recently employed
after an eight-month training.
Daura, it was learnt, has been mandated
to probe the tenure of his predecessor. An
official from the office of the secretary to
the government of the federation (SGF)
has been pencilled down to do the job.
The official, from Katsina state, is
expected to be appointed as the new
director of finance, taking over from an
operative from Plateau State, who was
only appointed recently.
“Daura’s mandate is to probe Ekpenyong,
but it is not looking bright because some
of the allegations being examined are
difficult to prove. It has now been
established that the raids on the APC
office in Lagos were based on a tip-off by
an APC member. This has complicated
matters,” the source added.
The DSS had raided the office on the
allegation that the voters’ biometric cards
were being illegally produced there, a
move that generated public outrage. The
agency did not charge any suspect to
court.
Some top DSS operatives, meanwhile, are
beginning to question the capacity of the
new DG to pilot the affairs of the agency.
The reorganisation exercise is expected to
continue as new governments usually fill
strategic positions at the agency with
loyalists.
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