BREAKING NEWS, Security
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Marilyn Ogar, former spokesperson of the Department of State Services, and 44 officers in the Service have been sent on compulsory retirement
THE Department of State Services, DSS, on Thursday, September 3, sent Marilyn Ogar, its former spokesperson, and 44 other senior officials, including two directors, on compulsory retirement.
According to sources, Ogar, who still has seven years in service, was said to have sent retirement because of her partisanship in the build up to the last elections.
Also affected in the exercise was the former chief security officer to President Muhammadu Buhari. The former CSO had engaged in the battle of supremacy with the ADC to Buhari once the president assumed office in Aso Rock, Abuja. However, the former CSO reportedly lost his job for absenting himself from office.
A signal concerning the retirement first came from the DSS headquarters on Wednesday night, but it not reveal the identities of officers affected by the exercise.
Ogar was promoted deputy director alongside 44 others in the twilight of the President Goodluck Jonathan administration. The exercise was, however, reversed by the new administration, citing some irregularities and breach of extant rules guiding such promotion.
Ogar was said to earn her promotion following the commendation she received from former President Jonathan for doing “a fantastic job” as spokesperson of the DSS.
The former DSS spokesperson was said to have been transferred to Maiduguri, Borno State shortly after the change in government. But there was no confirmation of this before the retirement exercise.
— Sep 4, 2015 @ 11:40 GMT
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