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       Daura Must Be Probed, Sack Not Enough – Abubakar Umar
       By: sparrow Date: August 11, 2018, 1:34 pm
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       former military governor of Kaduna State, Colonel Abubakar Umar
       (rtd), has said that the sack of the Director General of the
       Department for State Services (DSS), Lawal Daura, is not enough
       and therefore insists that the Federal Government must
       investigate him.
       In a statement on Friday, Umar said that he (Daura) might
       constitute a threat to Nigeria’s democracy if the Federal
       Government fails to investigate him.
       According to the former governor, he had in the last three years
       of leading the DSS created for himself, “a government within a
       government in Nigeria”.
       He therefore stated that the probe should cover the whereabouts,
       as well as the condition of all the assets handed over to him by
       the immediate past DG of the DSS, Ita Ekpeyong.
       He said: “Without a doubt, the summary dismissal, last week, of
       Alhaji Lawal Daura, Director-General, Department of State
       Services, came as a big surprise to many people. It seemed to
       contradict the world order!
       “In the last three years, Lawal Daura had marched from one
       audacious act of impunity to another; had rudely defied the
       president, had routinely ignored court orders and seemed all but
       successful in carving out, for himself, a government within a
       government in Nigeria.
       “There was hardly any observer of the turbulent Nigerian
       political scene over the last several years who still believed
       that Lawal Daura was subject to any laws not to speak of
       official code of behaviour.
       “But on Tuesday, the 7th of August, 2018, Acting President,
       Professor Yemi Osinbajo, signed a terse, two-paragraph letter
       telling Lawal Daura that he has been dismissed from office. Not
       only that, Professor Osinbajo also ordered Lawal Daura be
       arrested and remanded in police custody.
       “Given all the distress created by the actions of Lawal Daura
       and those caused through his refusal to act, the decision to
       sack him did not come a moment too soon.
       “And yet, in the interest of our democracy, to guard against
       unexpected threats and conspiracies, the action taken by the
       acting president must not stop halfway. The government should
       seek to discover the motives as well as the explanation for some
       of those crazy manoeuvres, many of which simply beggars belief,”
       Umar said.
       According to him, some of the areas the former DSS DG should be
       probed about should include: reasons why he deployed SSS
       operatives and prevented EFCC personnel from searching the
       residences of Mr Ekpenyong and former NIA DG, Mr Oke, as well as
       an explanation for why he continuously and in blatant defiance
       of the president sent false reports to the Nigerian Senate that
       frustrated the confirmation of Ibrahim Magu as substantive
       chairman of the EFCC, among others.
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