Newly appointed director general of the Department of State
Security, Lawal Musa Daura, has demoted Marilyn Ogar, the agency’s
former spokesperson, via a memo.
Apart
from demoting Ms. Ogar, the acting DSS director general also directed
the demotion of numerous other officers of the agency who were just
promoted in March in what was seen as a politically motivated exercise.
Ms.
Ogar was seen as a controversial official of the DSS who often made
statements that were deemed partisan. Her promotion was viewed as a
reward for doing dirty political jobs for former President Goodluck
Jonathan and members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Promotions
of officers in the DSS are usually done at the end of each year, but
Ms. Ogar and 44 others were promoted last March. Even so, their
promotion was not made public until May.
RN learned that Ms. Ogar is currently on vacation, and is reportedly
visiting her children resident in the US. In addition to her premature
promotion, Ms. Ogar was was also offered a generous scholarship to do a
PhD in the UK, according to one source at the agency.
Mr.
Daura also fired Abdulrahman Mani, the chief security officer to
President Muhammadu Buhari and immediately replaced him with Bashir
Abubakar, an assistant director in the Bayelsa State command of the DSS.
Mr. Mani was then posted to Ebonyi State.
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