The newly appointed DG of the Department of
State Security, DSS, Lawal Musa Daura, has
demoted Marilyn Ogar, the agency's former
spokesperson, via a memo. Read report below...
Apart from demoting Ms. Ogar, the acting DSS
director general also directed the demotion of
numerous other officers of the agency who were
just promoted in March in what was seen as a
politically motivated exercise.
Ms. Ogar was seen as a controversial official of
the DSS who often made statements that were
deemed partisan. Her promotion was viewed as a
reward for doing dirty political jobs for former
President Goodluck Jonathan and members of the
PDP.
Promotions of officers in the DSS are usually done
at the end of each year, but Ms. Ogar and 44
others were promoted last March. Even so, their
promotion was not made public until May.
Sahara reporters learned that Ms. Ogar is
currently on vacation, and is reportedly visiting
her children resident in the US. In addition to her
premature promotion, Ms. Ogar was was also
offered a generous scholarship to do a PhD in the
UK, according to one source at the agency.
Mr. Daura also fired Abdulrahman Mani, the chief
security officer to President Muhammadu Buhari
and immediately replaced him with Bashir
Abubakar, an assistant director in the Bayelsa
State command of the DSS.Mr. Mani was then
posted to Ebonyi State.
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