The sacked Director General of
the Department of State Security Service, Lawal Musa Daura, has now revealed
why he deployed hooded operatives of the secret service to the National
Assembly on Tuesday.
The ex-DSS boss said he acted
based on intelligence report that unauthorised persons were planning to smuggle
dangerous weapons and incriminating items into the complex.
Daura’s confession was contained
in the interim investigation report submitted by the Inspector General of
Police, IGP Idris to the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo. IGP Idris argued in
the report that Daura carried out the siege on the National Assembly without
the approval of the acting president.
“The former Director-General,
Department of State Security Service, Mr Lawal Musa Daura acted unilaterally
without informing the presidency. He did not share or intimate other security
agencies on the unlawful operations,” Idris was quoted to have said in the
report obtained by Daily Trust.
The police boss also said the
purported intelligence report by Daura cannot be substantiated as the personnel
deployed were not EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) experts or specialist in
this regard.
Recall that on Tuesday armed DSS officials stormed the National Assembly as early as 6:am and
blocked the entrance and exit points.
The Acting President, hours
later, dismissed the DSS boss.
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