It isn’t clear at this point whether Ita Ekpeyong who was appointed the Director General of the State Security Service (SSS) by out-gone President Goodluck Jonathan in 2010; willfully threw in the towel or got a kick up his backside by the Presidency, but this we do know:
Ita Ekpeyong is no longer the DG of Nigeria’s equivalent of the secret service.
The President has also appointed Lawal Musa Daura in his place.
The removal of Mr. Ekpeyong and appointment of his replacement was announced Thursday by the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Danladi Kifasi, via a statement by the Director of Communications in his office, Haruna Imrana.
According to the statement by the Head of Service, Mr. Daura, who is returning to the SSS from retirement, was born in Daura, Katsina State, on August, 5, 1953.
He attended Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria from 1977 – 1980.
He started his career in the State Security Service in 1982 and rose to the rank of Director.
He was at one time the Deputy Director, Presidential Communication, Command and Control Centre, at the Presidential Villa Abuja between 2003 and 2007.
He also served as State Director of Security Service at various times in Kano, Sokoto, Edo, Lagos, Osun and Imo States.
He attended various professional courses both home and abroad including the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, (NIPSS) Kuru.
The appointment is with immediate effect, the statement said.
Ekpeyong and the SSS were unapologetically partisan in the discharge of their duties and hounded Buhari’s political party, the APC for fun prior to the general elections.
It was also an open secret that President Buhari had lost confidence in the ability of the agency to watch his and the country’s back. SSS personnel were being redeployed from the inner recesses of the presidential villa and asked to man the perimeter fences as recently as last week.
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