SSS Sacks Buhari Ex- CSO, Abdulrahman Mani

 

The former Chief Security Officer, CSO, to President Buhari,  Abdulrahman Mani was among those that the hammer fell on yesterday.The DSS sacked Mani for refusing to show up for duty,he was promoted to deputy Director in the Department of State Security,during the transition period and made the CSO to Buhari.
He  and the president’s ADC, Mohammed Abubakar, clashed over the deployment of military personnel to take charge of the inner security of the president before he was removed from the presidency and redeployed to Bayelsa.


Lt Col Abubakar ordered SSS operatives  in a a memo to steer clear of areas such as “Admin Reception, Service Chiefs Gate, Residence Reception, Rear Resident, Resident Gate, Office Reception, C-In-C Control Office, ACADE Gate, C-IN-C Control Gate and Panama”
He orders the DSS in conjunction with other security forces are to man other duty beats/locations located within the immediate outer perimeter of the Presidential Villa, without providing reasons for the action.

The former CSO  rejected the directive and giving a counter directive, asking his colleagues to disregard Mr. Abubakar’s circular. Eventually Lawal Daura was appointed as the acting Director General of the SSS during the altercation. Sources in the service said relations between Mr. Daura and Mr. Mani, both from Katsina State, had been fractious. Mr. Mani was promptly posted to Bayelsa State Command of the service – a move seen by observers as punitive.Mr. Buhari later ordered that Mr. Mani’s posting be reversed as it became clearer the decision was punitive,and Mani was re-posted to the presidential villa as the president’s Chief Detail , a designation that is second in command to the CSO.
Dissatisfied with the arrangement, Mr. Mani refused to report to duty, the reason given by the SSS for his retirement, sources said.