 |
| President Muhammadu Buhari |
The president’s spokesman, Femi Adesina,
had explained that the personnel was removed due to the normal “routine adjustment”, has against the
speculation that President Buhari removed and expelled the SSS officers because
he does not trust them, and believing that they may still be loyal to the past
president, Goodluck
Jonathan.
Meanwhile, Mr. Adesina did not however mention
that the SSS officers were removed from the president’s primary security
detail.
It was confirmed from the reliable source inside Aso Villa on Friday,
June 24 that a directives has been given to the removal of the personnel. The memo
was written by the Aide de Camp to President Buhari, Mohammed Abubakar, and was
on June 26th distributed to key officials in the Villa.
It reportedly stated that from that day, “DSS
personnel have been redeployed from some duty beats/locations.”
According to the report, the memo clearly stated
that security tasks initially being handled by SSS officials are now to be
handled by officials of other security agencies.
Abubakar said personnel of the Armed Forces and
the police, who were trained as Presidential Body Guards, PBGs, are to “provide
close/immediate protection for Mr. President henceforth”.
Areas to be taken care of by the PBGs also
include, “Admin Reception, Service Chiefs Gate, Residence Reception, Rear
Resident, Resident Gate, Office Reception, C-In-C Control Office, ACADE Gate,
C-IN-C Control Gate and Panama”.
“However, the personnel of the DSS in
conjunction with other security forces are to man other duty beats/locations
located within the immediate outer perimeter of the Presidential Villa,” he
memo reportedly said, without providing reasons for the action
No comments:
Post a Comment