TheCable

Babagana Monguno, national security adviser (pictured, right), has sacked from his office, 12 directors reportedly loyal to Sambo Dasuki, the former NSA.

An official who works in the office of the NSA confirmed the development to TheCable.

He revealed that the directors were from the departments of behavioural analysis, policy and strategy,  internal security, defence affairs, communication, economic intelligence, special duties and counter-terrorism centre, lawful interception, security, administration and finance and presidential communication command and control centre.

“The directors were given until Friday to tender their handover notes,” the official said.

“The NSA may want have a clean slate. You know the former NSA is undergoing trial for illegal possession of firearms. The sacked directors were loyal to him.”

TheCable also gathered that the sacking of the directors might be connected to dereliction of duty on their part.

The dismissal of the officers follows the patter of a similar “compulsory retirement” of 45 top directors at the Department of State Services (DSS), including Marilyn Ogar, who was deputy director of public relations of the agency.

Ibrahim Katsina and Abdulrahman Mani, who was recently removed as chief security officer to Buhari; Gordon Obua, chief security officer to Ex-president Goodluck Jonathan; as well as the CSO to Ita Ekpeyong, former director-general of the agency, were also named among the retirees.

Most of the affected officers were believed to be close to Ekpeyong, who was in turn seen as loyal to Jonathan.