DSS DG, DAURA SACKED BY OSINBAJO

The Director-General of the Department of State Services, Lawal Daura has been sacked by Nigeria’s Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo.

This is according to a series of tweets by Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the Acting President.

The tweet read:
Osinbajo has “directed the termination of the appointment of the DG of the DSS, Mr. Lawal Musa Daura”.

“Mr. Daura has been directed to hand over to the most senior officer of the State Security Service until further notice”, Akande said.

Mask wearing operatives of the DSS, had earlier on Tuesday August 7 blocked the gates of the National Assembly this morning, preventing senators and workers from gaining entrance.

Several PDP senators, who were caught in the blockade interpreted it as a move to impeach Senate President Bukola Saraki, but that turned out to be false as no APC senator was in the National Assembly.

The blockade has been roundly condemned as anti-democratic and has made the leadership of the National Assembly to call off a scheduled meeting this afternoon, that would probably have paved way for the reconvening of the Assembly.

Members of the two-chamber legislature went on recess starting July 24 and were scheduled to resume on September 25, 2018.

The executive arm of government has issued a red alert that the recess may lead to a government shutdown and as such called for them to reconvene.