Are southerners second class citizens?
Is there anything like ONE NIGERIA for real?

can the man who promised us he belongs to NOBODY and to EVERYBODY but can't even keep the words of his mouth be said to have integrity?
So many one-sided appointments in recent times, yet he feels he's father to all.

Nigeria’s internal secret service, the State Security Service (SSS), is enmeshed in a recruitment scandal following the exposure of a shocking lopsidedness in the composition of the new officers recently absorbed into the agency.

The agency commissioned 479 cadet officers after their passing-out parade in Lagos on March 5, at a ceremony attended by the Director-General of the Agency, Lawal Daura, and the Chief of Air Staff, Abubakar Sadique, air marshall.

The parade followed a nine-month training programme under the agency’s Basic Course 29/2016/17, which encompassed academic activities, insurgency/counter insurgency, intelligence operations and gathering, firearms drills and physical training exercises.

But the listing of the newly commissioned cadet officers seen by PREMIUM TIMES reveal wide disparity in the numbers of slots allocated to the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, indicating that the federal character principle may have been ignored in the recruitment of the officers.

Officially, recruitment for the Course was based on a minimum of five slots per state. Ostensibly to ensure compliance with the federal character principle in the exercise, applicants were last year made to sit for recruitment examinations in the capitals of their states of origin. The five slots per state were said to have been picked through the examinations.

However, it has emerged that the authorities paid scant regards to the federal character principle in the final selection of the cadets.
Although the authorities ensured that at least five cadets were recruited from each state and the FCT, they grotesquely tipped the scale in favour of some states in the balance of recruits that emerged from other extraneous considerations.

For instance, while only the minimum of five cadets stipulated per state finally entered the Service from Akwa Ibom, Nigeria’s largest oil producing state, a whopping 51 found their way in from Katsina State, the home state of President Muhammadu Buhari and the Director-General of the SSS, Mr. Daura.

It is not clear what criteria was used in the composition of the final list of the new officers.

The anomaly in the exercise is further evident in the disparity between intakes from the two most populous states in Nigeria, Kano and Lagos, which have 25 and seven, respectively, indicating that the size of the pool of applicants from each state was not a factor in the recruitment.

A breakdown of the newly commissioned cadet officers on geo-political basis revealed that 165 are from the North-west, about four times as many as those who were picked from the South-south (42).

The figures for the other other zones are North-east 100, North-central 66, South-west 57 and South-east 44.

This means that while 331 of the newly commissioned officers are from the 19 northern states and the FCT, less than half of the total intakes were from states in the southern part of Nigeria. See table and charts below for slots allocated to each state.

Attempts to speak with the SSS on the criteria used for the allocation of slots to states were not rewarded as at the time of this publication.

The agency has had no spokesperson since the removal of its last one, Marilyn Ogar, in 2015. The Director-General of the agency, Mr. Daura, did not pick calls or respond to a text message sent to his known telephone numbers.

Also, the Acting Chairman of the Federal Character Commission, Shettima Bukar-Abba, did not pick his calls or respond to a message seeking clarifications on the role played by the commission in the recruitment exercise.

The Commission has the responsibility of ensuring compliance with the federal character principle in recruitment into the federal civil service and agencies.

In demonstration of the importance attached to the principle, it has been enshrined in every constitution of Nigeria since the country’s independence.

Section 14, subsection 3 of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria states that: “The composition of the Government of the Federation or any of its agencies and the conduct of its affairs shall be carried out in such manner to reflect the federal character of Nigeria and the need to promote national unity, and also to command national loyalty thereby ensuring that there shall be no predominance of persons from a few states or from a few ethnic or sectional groups in that government or any of its agencies”.

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Lalasticlala, are you happy with this news?

This is very bad for a government to disregard the cultural diversity of the nation and instead choose the path of the nation that the president came from is indeed very bad

Well... according to zombies, this is not corruption

Every statistics and data analysis shows NE, NW & NC are behind the South in education but they always seem to be the most qualified for FG employment since SAINT BUHARI became president

Hope Afonjas who are haters of SS and SE are happy about this

Quota system in action

All double digits above 12 on that chart belongs to the north. The same north tagged educationally disadvantaged.

Funny but sad, all single digit below 8 belongs to the 5%

Until quota system is expunged from the constitution, don't ever believe a product of quota system to fight corruption on your behalf.

Yes we said One Nigeria.
U want me to believe in One Nigeria.
U want me not to agitate for my own country (Biafra).


Just a matter of time. Even a year old baby will see it, feel it. Then the centre will no longer hold.

Where is Lalasticlala sef

I am not surprised.

The zoo has made it clear again that some animals are more equal than others.

This is why there would always be a northerner to head this parastatals and paradventure a southerner gets to be the next head all sorts of excuses would be employed just to deny him that right/privilege.

We southerners dey dull ourselves for this country.


Now that this has been discovered nothing go happen but if it were the other way around all hell for don break lose.

my God see corruption at it's peak.

Lolzz. Nkita chikwe recruiting his brother for next election

Umu afo muru, gbadokwanu anya na ogbako a

Atuoru o mara, O mara.

What do u expect from a man who in league with d likes of utterly corrupt people like Saraki and Kyari,is doing all he can to ensure that the one person dedicated,committed and competent enough to fight corruption,Magu,is removed from office.
It only takes a corrupt man in mind and body to seek that corruption and corrupt people are left to carry on their deeds.
This recruitment scandal is just a clear manifestation of the true character of the DSS of Daura.Nothing has changed.

How do you expect the DG of the Federal character commission to act when Buhari appointed the spokesperson for Fulani herdsmen as DG Federal character commission?

This is bad, even worse in a period when there are various agitations to break up the country.

Jajaja:
Umu afo muru, gbadokwanu anya na ogbako a

Atuoru o mara, O mara.

Onye ndi ilo gbara gburu gburu n'eche ndu ya nche mgbe nile.

Sunnynwa:


Onye ndi ilo gbara gburu gburu n'eche ndu ya nche mgbe nile.

Uche bu akpa, onye o bula nyara nke ya.

Gbadonu anya, umu afo.

Jajaja:


Uche bu akpa, onye o bula nyara nke ya.

Gbadonu anya, umu afo.

Anyi mu anya ka azu.

What do you expect from a Daura Secret Service?

This is not fair, if it is true.

It seems the North owns Nigeria. Most top posts Hausa/Fulani are heading it. Federal character my foot!

IbnIslam:
This is not fair, if it is true.

Were you charmed into voting for Buhari

Northernocracy.

Nigeria is the only country that defies logic, how can regions with low educational and economic index be controlling virtually all spheres of government?

This does not bode well for our future as it is now evident that being educated in Nigeria is a total waste of time, since you will eventually be led and governed by illiterates who also give special treatments to their fellow illiterates, leaving the literate ones wandering like headless chickens.

These are the kinds of "battles" I expect our corrupt senate to address and resolve. They will summon the custom's boss because he seized Saraki's SUZ, but they will not summon the DSS boss for this obvious provocative nonsense.

Who's surprised?

... Believe in "one Nigeria" to your own detriment.

...samething goes for the military and other federal parastatals, its hausa/fulani first, others are O.Y.O

Hahaha CHANGEEEEEE !!

a whopping 51 found their way in from Katsina State, the home state of President Muhammadu Buhari and the Director-General of the SSS, Mr. Daura.

Any wonder its now called Daura Secret Service

Is this not a worse form of corruption than theft of money. Deny and kill the dreams of a whole section of youth in this country because they are not from Katsina. We are watching things unfold