After months of not knowing their fate, the Department of
State Services personnel who served as Body Guards to
President Goodluck Jonathan have been posted out of the
Villa to various state commands.
Reliable sources at the Presidential Villa said that the
signal for the posting of the over 150 body guards who had
remained redundant following the directive by the ADC to
President Buhari that they should leave the presidential
villa came yesterday.
It would be recalled that following the swearing in of
President Buhari, personnel of the Department of State
Services who had traditionally served as Body Guards to
the president were ordered to leave the Villa on the
instructions of the ADC to the president.
According to the source while a few of the DSS personnel
were posted to the headquarters of the DSS, most of them
were posted to various state commands of the service.
The source said:
“Almost all of our personnel who were body guards
in the villa have been transferred out of the state
House. A new crop of body guards who were trained
for the purpose have taken over. They will take over
from the soldiers who were initially drafted to man
the various beats hitherto occupied by the DSS
personnel. That phase of transition is over” the
source said.
About 250 personnel of the DSS are expected to take over
the job of protecting the president from the military
personnel.
It was gathered that the reason why they were replaced
was sue to the bitter experience during the sallah prayers
when president Buhari was almost mobbed by enthusiastic
Nigerians who overwhelmed the military men that were
supposed to protect him.
President Buhari himself confessed that but for God’s
protection, he would have been mobbed by the crowd that
thronged the Eid prayer ground.
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