By Ibrahim Sanyi-Sanyi


Sometime in 2010, former President Jonathan appointed Ita
Ekpenyong as the DG DSS, even though Mr. Ekpenyong was
number ten on the hierarchy of Directors in the DSS. The
President skipped Mr. L. M. Daura who was number two in
the hierarchy at that time to install someone from his native
South South geopolitical zone. This effectively forced the
early retirement of Mr. Daura and eight other Directors who
were senior to Ita Ekpenyong.


The same thing was done in the Army by President Jonathan
when he nominated his kinsman, the current Chief of Army
Staff . About twenty Generals were forced to retire in order
to pave way for the appointment of General Kenneth
Minimah.


To me, President Buhari merely did the right thing by
correcting the injustice mated to Mr. L.M. Daura when he
was bypassed by Jonathan (being the second most senior
Director in the hierarchy of DSS) and retired early to make
way for the appointment of Mr. Ita Ekpenyong as the DG
DSS.


President Buhari is not given to myopic reflections such as
nepotism and favouritism in making appointments. His
previous records in the military and as HoS has shown that
he goes for competence, integrity and performance.
Moreover, he's conscientious; and will go out of his way in
ensuring justice and equity to all irrespective of clannish or
religious considerations.


I want to believe that justice - righting the wrong done to Mr.
L.M. Daura - more than kinship ties with PMB was the
motivation for the appointment of new DG DSS. Besides, the
new DG is very competent to run the affairs of the secret
security outfit having rose to the position of a Director in
that organisation.


Nigerians should look beyond the narrow prism of ethnicity,
regionalism or religion in their analyses of decisions taken
and appointments made by President Buhari; they should
be positive, moreso when they are not privy to the
information available to the President which influenced such
decisions.

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Tanoids are fools...why am I npt surprised.
The wailing wailers...chai, femi adeshina na bad man

Buhari is so fullish!

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Buhari is so fullish!

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Op, please cross check this info. I gathered that Daura retired as a Director in 2013 after attaining natural retirement at age 60 years and was infact a beneficiary of the magnanimity of the ex-DG who promoted him to substantive Director just prior to his retirement.

#Tanoids #wailingwailers

Thanks for this update, my take on appointments into some of these key positions is:
"Appoint the one you trust and you can work with"

Irrespective of whether the person is senior or junior, the most important paramater is personal trust. Why will Buhari leave an Ekpenyong as DG of SSS? that will be very stupid of him. Same way I wouldn't blame GEJ for appointing at a much lower level