Buhari’s ex-CSO, Marilyn Ogar sacked

The Department of State Services (DSS) has retired 15 senior officers including President Muhammadu Buhari’s immediate past Chief Security Officer Abdurrahman Dauda Mani, and the Department’s former spokesperson, Marilyn Ogar.
Sources said the Service compulsorily retired them through a directive issued late on Wednesday. Two directors were also among those retired.
The affected persons were said to have been investigated by a panel over alleged misdemeanors and professional misconduct.


Several allegations of corrupt behavior were made against her.
Ogar was promoted to position of deputy director along with about 44 other officers, but the promotion was cancelled on grounds that they did not follow due process.
The promotion exercise was conducted by Ekpeyong at the tail end of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration.
She was also alleged to have been partisan in her utterances as spokesperson of the DSS, in favor of the then ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

 The CSO and AO are charged with enforcing discipline among the DSS personnel in the Villa. They were said to have played roles in the security shake-up saga which was said to have angered the president, hence their redeployment.
The current purge in the DSS, according to sources, was due to series of petitions sent to the service against the officers for conducts described as outside their official responsibilities.
  Although the officers have been advised to go on compulsory retirement, to which some have already complied, some are said to be gearing up to contest the decision.
Some have been complaining they were not given fair hearing on the accusations leveled against them. 


Source: Daily Trust