- Controversy is reportedly brewing at the DSS headquarters over new postings
- Mathew Seiyefa, the acting DSS DG had commenced re-organizing the agency by constituting a committee comprising directors and management staff to reform the agency
- The acting DSS boss was summoned by a top official in the Villa and asked to reverse all the new postings he made
Controversy is allegedly brewing at the Department of Security Services (DSS) following alleged directive from the presidency asking the acting director general, Mathew Seiyefa, to reverse recent changes he made at the agency.
Daily Trust reports that following the sack of Lawal Daura as the director general, Seiyefa immediately commenced re-organizing the agency by constituting a committee comprising directors and management staff to reform the agency
NAIJ.com gathered that the committee is reportedly chaired by the director administration who is from Katsina state.
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The committee, according to Daily Trust, discovered that there are 49 vacancies at the directorate level across the states and top management positions at the headquarters, which the sacked DG did not fill, even though there are qualified people in the service for the vacant positions.
“Not filling those vacancies have resulted in stagnation, discontent and low morale among staff,” one of the sources was quoted.
The committee was said to have recommended the disengagement of all those who have reached retirement age or have already put in 35 years in service.
Seiyefa was also said to have embarked on some few appointments which included retaining the director of finance, the deputy director administration and appointment of another director from Kano into top management position.
Also, the committee discovered that there were three top management staff from the south-south at the Headquarters, but none from the southwest.
Seifeya also re-deployed another director to the headquarters so that the southwest would have representation.
According to Daily Trust, the acting DSS boss was summoned by a top official in the Villa and asked to reverse all the new postings he made.
The source said that Seiyefa has vowed never to allow interference in the running of the agency.
It was learnt that a director in the agency has started calling those affected on phone asking them to go back to their former postings, but the officers have refused to obey the order, describing it as illegal.
Attempts by Daily Trust to contact the newly appointed spokesman of the agency, Nnochirionye Afunanya, for position of the agency were unsuccessful.
Meanwhile, NAIJ.com had previously reported that some supporters of President Muhammadu Buhari allegedly started making moves to take control of the Department of State Services (DSS) ahead of the 2019 general polls.
It was gathered that the loyalists, who were working in collaboration with a cabal in the presidency, had already given the acting boss of the service, Mathew Seiyefa, who hails from Bayelsa state a signal that he might leave office soon.
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