According to a report by Sahara Reporters , the newly appointed DG of
the Department of State Security, DSS, Lawal Musa Daura, has
demoted Marilyn Ogar, the agency’s former spokesperson, via a memo.
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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
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.
SaharaReporters 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.
Source: SaharaReporters