President Muhammadu Buhari, reportedly unhappy with the work of the Department of State Services (DSS) after a team of lawyers reviewed the evidence gathered from the agency’s recent raid on judges suspected of corruption, has ordered that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) take over the matter.


The decision is said to have followed weeks of reviewing the evidence assembled by DSS, as well as the statements made by the judges involved.  The president is said to be insisting that the investigations must be more professionally handled.  

Sources told SaharaReporters that the review of the case files, the delay in filing charges against the judges, and the shoddiness of the performance of DSS gave some of the judges the opportunity to start recanting their statements and twisting the facts of their cases.

A Presidency source said the President, as well as the office of the Vice President which also reviewed the cases, decided that multi-agency collaboration was needed to strengthen the cases before they go to court.

The DSS was initially mandated to work with the EFCC to do thorough investigations before a raid was carried out, but sources told SaharaReporters that due to intra-agency rivalry, the DSS refused to hand over case information to the EFCC and hid their plans from the anti-corruption agency, preferring to work with the Nigeria police. 

Police officers invited on the raid, in turn, leaked the plans to the judges involved.  In the case of Rivers State, for instance, the police tipped off the state Governor, Nyeson Wike, who then mobilized, with the support of the state Commissioner of Police, to personally stop the arrest of a federal judge. 

Another reason adduced for the action of the DSS was said to be the desire by the Director-General of the agency, Lawal Daura, to warm himself into the heart of the President.

President Buhari has now ordered him to work with the EFCC and ensure that future investigations are properly done.  Given the size of the anti-corruption challenge, however, it is unclear if, in the absence of outright rebuke or personnel changes,the president's scheme might not be subverted.

CoolFreeday:
who handles the case is not my problem, my issue is that corruption should be reduced to the nearest minimum in Nigeria

Another reason adduced for the action of the DSS was said to be the desire by the Director-General of the agency, Lawal Daura, to warm himself into the heart of the President
President Buhari has now ordered him to work with the EFCC and ensure that future investigations are properly done

DesChyko:
The id¡ots get paid to do shitty jobs. Where are those claiming the DSS has this spot-on? Yeye

fitzmayowa:



One of them was almost tearing his cloth, when I was trying to explain to him that the fight against corruption should follow due process for it to be successful...

Some of them have eyes but they can't see with them even with the truth right in front of them...

fitzmayowa:



DSS has no business leading the fight against alleged corrupt officials, it's not their primary responsibility...

DSS leading the fight against corruption will end up rubbishing the whole process like we've seen in recent weeks...

It's good that the presidency is seeing the flaws in DSS leading the fight when there is an agency solely meant for that purpose...

You don't use illegality to fight corruption it will only give the alleged corrupt officials an escape route on the ground of illegality...

The DSS was initially mandated to work with the EFCC to do thorough investigations before a raid was carried out, but sources told SaharaReporters that due to intrainter-agency rivalry, the DSS refused to hand over case information to the EFCC and hid their plans from the anti-corruption agency, preferring to work with the Nigeria police.

Police officers invited on the raid, in turn, leaked the plans to the judges involved. In the case of Rivers State, for instance, the police tipped off the state Governor, Nyeson Wike, who then mobilized, with the support of the state Commissioner of Police, to personally stop the arrest of a federal judge.

fitzmayowa:



DSS has no business leading the fight against alleged corrupt officials, it's not their primary responsibility...

DSS leading the fight against corruption will end up rubbishing the whole process like we've seen in recent weeks...

It's good that the presidency is seeing the flaws in DSS leading the fight when there is an agency solely meant for that purpose...

You don't use illegality to fight corruption it will only give the alleged corrupt officials an escape route on the ground of illegality...

Another reason adduced for the action of the DSS was said to be the desire by the Director-General of the agency, Lawal Daura, to warm himself into the heart of the President.

Given the size of the anti-corruption challenge, however, it is unclear if, in the absence of outright rebukes or personnel changes, the President’s scheme might not be subverted.

ShowYourCertificate:
My fellow brothers and sisters, tell me. Is this how we'll fight corruption and win?

I think I also need to see the WASC Certificate of the Head of DSS