Tension as President Buhari’s most senior security officers are at war
– The cold war embarked between the nation’s most senior security officers Monguno and Lawal Daura
– Even President Buhari was not able to stop the row as it is commencing to have implications on national security
Premium Times exclusively reports that President Muhammadu Buhari’s National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno, and the Director General of the State Security Services (SSS), Lawal Daura, are at cold war.
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The row between two of Nigeria’s most senior security officers has festered to a degree that it is commencing to have implications on national security, government officials said.
Some sources told reporters that even President Buhari cannot make them call a truce as the two officials have stopped talking to each other.
The war began last August when the president directed the Monguno to establish a committee to investigate military purchase from 2007 to 2015.
According to sources as Nigeria’s secret police, it was taken for granted that the SSS would be part of the committee. However, NSA reportedly rejected to allow representation from the SSS.
While being asked why the SSS official was denied, Monguno said he wanted the panel, made up of mainly retired army officers and a representative from the anti-graft agency, to be closed-nit, to avoid leakage of confidential information about the committee’s work.
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The source said “The DG of the DSS found that insulting. According to him it was rude and illogical to claim that an agency in charge of intelligence gathering and other serious confidential security issues for the entire country is not considered worthy of keeping information about a committee.”
Since then the relationship between both officials worsen and has not recovered yet.
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