The State Security Service has held Usman Bugaje for criticising the Buhari administration’s handling of insecurity across the country.

Mr Bugaje, a politician and scholar, was held by state agents after appearing on AIT, Peoples Gazette learnt. He has been at the secret police’s custody since 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, sources said.

Mr Bugaje added his voice to growing concerns amongst Nigerians about insecurity. The politician had previously condemned Mr Buhari’s failure to tackle the economy, as well as his sectional appointments.

It was not immediately clear whether the SSS would release Mr Bugaje today. A spokesman for the service did not immediately return a request seeking comments from The Gazette.

Mr Bugaje’s arrest came barely a few weeks after the SSS invited then detained Obadiah Mailafia, a former CBN chief who similarly criticised insecurity and accused politicians of being behind the expanding crisis.

Peoples Gazette


Dr. Bugaje, a former House of Reps member and founding Secretary-General of the now-defunct ACN, has been highly critical of the Buhari-led administration's handling of the Insecurity pervading the country presently.

He was arrested by the DSS during the Goodluck Jonathan administration in 2012, after his critical stance,via an interview, on their handling of the subsidy removal.

Publicity Secretary of the ACN at the time, Lai Mohammed had condemned the arrest:

”There is nothing that Dr. Bugaje said in that interview that has not been said many times over by other Nigerians since the government decided to over-reach itself by inflicting avoidable pain on the people in the name of fuel subsidy removal.

”Perhaps Dr. Bugaje’s only sin is that he is a member of the ACN. But our party is not responsible for the unenviable situation in which this rudderless government has found itself. In fact, had the government listened to our wise counsel, it would have avoided the troubles it had now brought on itself,” Lai Mohammed said.

NIGERIA is in deep shit

Say the truth and let the cabal be ashamed. ooin

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Name one sane Nigerian not criticizing Buhari at present?

They will get tired of the arrest soon

DSS has turned to the attack dog of the clueless man in aso rock, this is just shameful....

NwaNimo1:
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Name one sane Nigerian not criticizing Buhari?

If the reports are correct, Remi Tinubu

Freestainworld:
They will get tired of the arrest soon

This is just ridiculous rather than tackle the security concerns raised by Nigerians they would rather arrest those that criticize the government....

The bitter lessons that Nigerians have learned in this Buhari presidency must have taught everyone not to trust a fulani man as president again.

In Zoo some animals are more important than other animals.
Buhari is hell bent on destroying the cowgeria , which is a good news to southern people.
Where are cowgeria patriots and their associates in abroad ,who day in and day out say cowgeria is the so called giant of the Africa

Freedom of speech has now been killed by the same people who rode on the right into public office.

In dx particular side of the lithosphere...Freedom of speech is not actually Free.

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Very soon, the viscous cycle will be completed

Madness of the highest order , so whoever speaks against insecurity in the country would be grilled by security agencies .

Sheik Gunni is till the middle man between federal government and bandits for ransom and he's not picked up for questioning.

It's not well o

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What if his arrest is not even related to criticizo Buhari?

Just saying

I see

how can he say say such nonsense when baba is working tirelessly to flush out bandits and criminals in our zoo

What a country!

If you think PMB is not aware of what is going on, then you still don't know the Buhari we warned you against in 2015.

He does not disappoint, everything we said he will do (Nepotism, fanatism, tribalism, recession, human rights abuse, etc) , he has done them.

The ones we said he can't do (good economic, promotion of peaceful coexistence etc), he did not bother to attempt them. Nemo dat qua non abet (You can not give out what you don't have.

How will it be well with those still supporting this government

WTF...SMH

Ladies and gentlemen!! Behold the change u all desired, behold the next level, behold 4 + 4

Still selling Red Palm Oil and Palm Kernel

I just weak

How long shall we continue with this senseless misdirection of efforts?

DSS are only going to get tired of arrests. Buhari is a failure, and that’s the simple truth. Is this not obvious that Buhari is a shameless goat? He arrests people who speak the truth and he claims to be Mr integrity?

Buhari is a bandit and has shown this with his love for blood letting and pettiness. During his first time as president he ran Nigeria to the ground hence he was overthrown, he has ran Nigeria to the ground again. Is this not a wicked person!

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Is that agency still in existence, thought it's defunct.. Oh I forgot that everything under this government is in a state of comatose

Under Buhari freedom of speech is non-existent, security is a long forgotten issue, job creation is a taboo.
What we have right now is Nepotism, borrowing, sycophancy, and ethnic superioty. Buhari has lifted his family and cronies out of poverty and they have been transformed into billionaires, people who usually begged for transport from Daura to Kaduna are now billionaires all thanks to our darling insensitive President.

Now I see what these people are doing.

They don't want any discerning voice to rise from the North...so that it won't sway their naive and gullible followers in the region.