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Buhari and clowns he surround him self with will lead this country to calamity if not checkmated

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Another Al-mustapha "wanna-be" spotted in the Presidential Villa!

INTROVERT 1GB has finished. No more FTC. Kilode?!

If na to guard go cause wahala for dem,make dem come dey guard us for nairaland jo

Confused old hypocrite.

Na by force dem they protect, take ur skills outta Aso rock, its not a must u are attached to the presidency fha...

chax100:
INTROVERT 1GB has finished. No more FTC. Kilode?!

the owner of the fone she was using has collected his fone,she is now bak to her china fone

What does the law have to say about this? I was under the impression that under the law, The President cannot just do away with the DSS? Or is this only applicable in the US?

premConcept:
Hia, they say dey no want you again...na by force to guard the POTFRON? See how dey carry the thing for head like Wyclef when it's obvious everybody just dey fight for what they can get into their pockets.

We can manage alomo 4 premature ejaculation is less costly too

notoriousbabe:
the owner of the fone she was using has collected his fone,she is now bak to her china fone

LOL. She is watching u in 0.1D monochrome display chinko kpalasa phone.

na wa,Buhari said he doesn't want u..se na by force ni?? or will it affect ur salaries?? u pple should go and sit down in ur office and be drinking la casera jare...stop disturbing Nigerians with all dis trashy gists..

is it just me or the guns look like it came from xbox halo game?

Luedave:
Dis throne is sweet... #ftc



forget d op illegally claimed dat land above me

Really?

ApcSucks:



We can manage alomo 4 premature ejaculation is less costly too

whatever works 4 you.

BUHARI, A PRESIDENT FULL OF VENDETTA. BARELY ONE MONTH HE HAD SHOWN VENDETTA TO AIT . MILITARY AND NOW SSS. THIS PRESIDENT IN UNDEMOCRATIC, HE NEEDS TO ATTEND NDI.

This is serious!!!


With the rate at which all these are happening Buhari is really in for it. There would be so much on his hands by now.

People are saying DSS are partisan ok since they have forgotten let me remind dem
Nigeria Army (Pmb darlings of today) are they not the once that said he does not have certificate? Which partisan past that one?
Nigeria Army are they not the same people that went and surrounded Tinubu house that he had to put a poster telling them this is not Sambisa?
Nigeria Army are were they not fingered in the secret Audio tape that was leaked about Ekiti election?
Or Should we talk of the Police that they use to terrorise BBOg group cos they felt that they part of APC?
Or have we all forgotten how d head of Nigeria Police withdrew Tambuwal security? And even AMEACHI own, or we have forgotten Super cop Mbu?
What is wrong is wrong, the army that the president is rely on where we're they wen he was not in power? Was it not this Same DSS that were part of his Security Detail as a Ex President?
Besides we all know the main henchmen mof the DSS during the past regime if Pmb feels he does not trust them he shld go after them not this ordinary foot soldiers doing their duty deligently, u cannot use few individuals act to persecute a whole agency it is wrong
Today it is d DSS tommorow it might be ur own organization that such thing would happen to that's wen u will start shouting Foul play

This is why they say you rip what you sow. You function under the NSA and the NSA functions under the presidency and commander in chief.

This is most politicized, corrupt and basterdized agency in Nigeria, they are too corrupt and compromised to be anywhere near the presidency.If possible, the whole agency should be disbanded and rebuilt from scratch.

This silly action shows why they are not allowed around the president.

cc lalasticlala

ohenhen1:
It is pay back no doubt about it. That is why DSS should not have played partisan politics. We all remember the presser of them showing PVC and them arresting APC members in Lagos. BTW what happened to the DSS spokeswoman?

PMB should not exhibit vengeance on those protecting him. As C-In-C, he has the free hand to redeploy whoever he does not want around him but he shouldn't rubbish the whole establishment because they can make things difficult for him.

I expect PMB to know better, putting the laws of power in focus.

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The Nigerian society is not your average society. Sometimes things are not as upright as they should be. Issues that would be considered in simple terms in other countries often take a whole new dimension in Nigeria. Let’s take last week’s election of the Speaker of the House of Representative and President of the Senate as examples.
After a transparent election in which the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives were duly elected, the APC issued a statement denouncing both individuals as from membership of the party simply because the election did not go as the party had intended.
Earlier this month news made the rounds that there was an ongoing dispute as to who, between the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Military, would be assigned to the protective detail of the President and Vice President.
There were indications on the ground that the dispute had reached fever pitch as the APC Security Committee have drawn and deployed soldiers from Infantry and Artillery Corps of the Nigerian Army as well as from the Navy to the Villa to take over from the DSS. I will not even go into the legality or otherwise of the deployment as it was no doubt done without any authorization or due process. This leaves on wondering what a party Committee has got to do with the configuration of a Presidential Bodyguard unit. It is assumed that the Committee would have terminated its assignment after successful transition.
I find it highly illogical to replace DSS officials with soldiers as the major criteria for doing should have been the pertinent question ‘has the DSS ever failed in its duty to protect the President, the Vice President, Senate President and Speaker of the House?’ The answer is of course No. So, if something isn’t broken, why fix it?
To further understand why it would be absolute folly to have the military protect the President rather than the DSS, let us take a look at the evolution of the DSS.
The DSS or the SSS as it was previously known started as a department in the defunct “E” Department of the Nigerian Police Force in 1948. It was then referred to as the Special Branch and had the primary responsibility of procuring and disseminating intelligence on security matters in Nigeria to relevant authorities.
The Special Branch was transformed into the National Security Organization (NSO) by virtue of Decree No. 16 of 1976. The reason for the creation of the NSO was necessitated by the desire of the Federal Government to confront the challenges of the time as presented by the intelligence challenges of the Civil War, the pursuit of several foreign policy commitments and the challenges to security posed by the abortive coup of 1976. Besides making the NSO an autonomous body with a life of its own, the Decree sought to professionalize the whole essence of intelligence gathering in Nigeria.
In 1986, the Babangida administration, through Decree No. 19 of 5th June, 1986 reorganized the NSO and restructure it into three agencies, the State Security Service; the Defence Intelligence Service (DIS); and the National Intelligence Agency (NIA).
In 1999, to give the SSS the advantage it needed to reposition itself for greater efficiency, General Abdulsalami Abubakar (Rtd.), in exercise of his powers as President by virtue of Instrument No. 1 of 1999 relating to the General Duties of the SSS as set out in Section 2 (3) of the decree’s objectives, further expanded the agency’s mandate to provide leadership and criminal justice services to both the federal and state law enforcement organs and was also charged with the protection of the President, Vice President, Speaker of the House of Representatives, President of the Senate, State Governors, their immediate families, other high ranking government officials, past presidents and their spouses, certain candidates for the offices of president and vice president and visiting foreign heads of state and governments. They have carried out these protective functions impeccably so far.
I understand that there may be old wounds and grudges being borne against the DSS for the partisan and unethical actions they took prior to the elections but this should not blind the current administration into scrapping an institution for the offences of the top officials. The leadership of the agency can be investigated for complicity unethical conduct and may be reprimanded where necessary, for the role the Service played. Tossing the entire institution under the bus as a means of payback is, well to say the least, in bad taste.
Besides, the training of the DSS and the military are totally different. The fact that they are both authorized to carry arms does not make their functions the same. For one, the army by their training cannot blend into a crowd for the purposes of carrying out intelligence or surveillance operations. By virtue of their training, blending isn’t one of the virtues of a soldier. Protecting a President goes far beyond carrying guns and looking stern. There are dozens of intuitive and instinctive issues one needs to consider and DSS operatives by their training are good at this. A DSS officer from basic training is prepared to be a protective security officer.
Replacing the President’s protective detail with their military would be tantamount to stuffing square pegs in round holes.
If this administration wants to expand the functions of the military to include protecting the President and Vice President, then they should first amend the Armed Forces Act. From the reading of Section 1(3) of the Armed Forces Act, the functions of the army are pretty clear and do not contemplate any inclusion of protecting the President or Vice President.
There are reports where the DSS is accused of bugging the President’s residence and cell phones. If you ask me, this is too well timed to be coincidental. Seems to me like someone is playing dirty, all in a bid to validate the military as the protectors of the President.
Call me paranoid but replacing the DSS with the army as the protectors of the President is like inviting the fox into the hen house. If this idea was conceived by someone close to the President, then the President should be wary. That person may have ulterior motives.
Kunle Afolayan, 12, Shodeinde Street, Karu, Abuja

The comment above gives me hope that some Nigerians still think critically.

Op, I'm sorry I disagree with some parts of the article.
The ADC has no power to do what he did, he was acting on the instructions of his boss. Who gives a lieutenant colonel power to deploy troops to the.presidential suite, is that not done by the Army high command ?
This crass show and total disregard for our constitution was done by a man who wants to destroy what we have been building for 16 years. BUHARI IS NOT A DEMOCRATIC LEADER AND THIS ACTION SHOWS WHERE WE ARE HEADED.
The bolded conveys my thought exactly.

Here is an extract from the article that bothers me:

"Another top official said, “Many of those Ita (the SSS Director General) believed were sympathetic to Buhari either got themselves relieved of their appointments or given punitive postings to places like Boron, Yobe, some South East States or just benched at the headquarters or non viable commands and formations."




If i were Buhari, i would sack that Ita as soon as possible.

JohnFrankling:
If the president don't want you to protect him is it by force, please DSS go protect the poor masses we too need protection

That's not a personal decision by mr president you people don't get it. DSS service is to the office and who ever occupies it under the section of the law becomes a prerogative of security service irrespective of whether you want them or not.

Sweetlemon:
Na by force to "protect" President ni?

I see ppl wit myopic brains here,I wud simply say YES na by force,if he doesn't want dem he shldnt have via for d position.To b a country's president ur ar not OYO anymore u belong to d state n d state must protect u.Great grandpa Buhari shld av stayed at home and allow does who nid it to continue d institution not breaking it for vengance wen even d military,police and even all security agencies were partisan durin d said period.wrk if u got anytIn to offer or leave d stage for willing souls to occupy

JohnFrankling:
If the president don't want you to protect him is it by force, please DSS go protect the poor masses we too need protection

toh....same question i was goin to ask oooo. IS IT BY FOrCE?

Dbboy:


That's not a personal decision by mr president you people don't get it. DSS service is to the office and who ever occupies it under the section of the law becomes a prerogative of security service irrespective of whether you want them or not.

When I see stup!d comments like the guy you just responded to it truly saddens my heart. We need a total over haul of our secondary education system so our youth understand what a democratic government is.

Dbboy:


That's not a personal decision by mr president you people don't get it. DSS service is to the office and who ever occupies it under the section of the law becomes a prerogative of security service irrespective of whether you want them or not.

You are wrong. DSS is under the NSA and the NSA decides their security assignments and the NSA is under the presidency or the executive. So, the presidency decides..

I'm sure this is a temporary move till they clean up the DSS from top to bottom.

I no be SSS or CSS or DSS or KSS or QSS neither a ZSS besides I no dey work for Aso Rock so ......

Truth be told, the president's ADC has no authority to write a memo...not to talk of issuing directives to SSS. His job is just an orderly to mr president. The head of all security in the villa is the CSO...chief security officer. This is the man who has the power to arrange all the presidents journey, map security network and movement around the president and screen visitors. The current CSO ...AbubAkar mani...has been with Buhari for a long time now and is even more loyal than the ADC who was only handpicked few weeks to swearing in.

But if u look at it we'll, the CSO doesn't necessary have to be whoever is the head of the SSS team in the villa. So, the ADC sees himself as head of army team in the villa and feels he could also be CSO after all, no formal appointment has been made of a CSO.

This whole confusion boils down to the fact that Buhari is yet to appoint a Chief of Staff. The chief of staff is the head of govt of Aso rock presidential villa....he is the only one that all departments must listen to. He is the one to organise the villa activities. Right now , what we see is a show of power...how can the ADC sideline the supposed CSO....are they mates?

I hope there won't be a shootout at the villa.