The Department of State Services has compulsorily retired two
directors and 13 other senior officials. A signal from the leadership of the
service issued on Wednesday night, listed the former spokesperson for the
service, Marilyn Ogar, a deputy director, as one of those affected.
Ogar’s predicament was traced to allegations of bribery and
professional misconducts leveled against her, chief among them her partisan
role in the build up to 2015 general elections.
She was also alleged to have received as “settlement”, several
trucks of DPK (Dual Purpose Kerosene), in flagrant abuse of due process and
ethics of her profession.
Although no official statement has been issued by the Service
regarding the compulsory retirement of Mrs. Ogar and others officials, sources
in the security circles confirmed that she was retired yesterday – seven years
before she was due for retirement.
It was gathered that the new Director General of the DSS, Lawal
Daura, set up a panel headed by a retired director of training to investigate
the allegations against Ogar and other staff of the agency.
Mrs. Ogar, it was further learnt, was found guilty of the
corruption allegation against her as well as for playing partisan role that
ridiculed the agency in the eyes of the Nigerian public.
The panel, therefore, recommended that she be compulsorily
retired, alongside others also found guilty for professional misconducts during
the last administration.
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