A cold war, which borders on supremacy, has ensued between two top security chiefs in President Muhammadu Buhari government, a development which is beginning to have implications on national security as the president has been unable to call them to order.

According to Premium Times, which reported exclusively on this, Babagana Monguno, National Security Adviser (NSA) and Lawal Daura, the Director General of the State Security Services (SSS) are allegedly locked in a bitter battle for supremacy.

The cold war between two of the nation’s most senior security officers has festered to an extent that it is beginning to have implications on national security, government officials said.

Sources told the newspaper that the two officials have stopped talking to each other, and President Muhammadu Buhari has been unable to make them call a truce.

According to the newspaper, the row started last August when Mr. Buhari directed the NSA to set up a committee to probe military procurement from 2007 to 2015.

Multiple security sources said as Nigeria’s secret police, it was taken for granted that the SSS would be represented in the committee. But at the point of choosing members of the panel, Mr. Monguno declined to allow representation from the SSS, they said.

According to our sources, when asked why the SSS official was turned back, the NSA said he wanted the panel, made up of mainly retired military officers and a representative from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to be closed-nit, to avoid leakage of confidential information about the committee’s work.

“The DG of the DSS found that insulting,” our source said. “According to him it was rude and illogical to claim that an agency in charge of intelligence gathering and other serious confidential security issues for the entire country is not considered worthy of keeping information about a committee.”

From then the relationship between both men deteriorated and has not recovered, officials said.

Source:

http://independentnig.com/2016/07/10/rumpus-in-buharis-camp-over-row-of-monguno-lawal-daura/

Rubbish ppl

So "saints" also fight amongst themselves?

there's no peace for d wicked.

Ok

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