NIGERIA GOVERNMENT WOULD NOT ALLOW DEPARTMENT OF STATE SERVICE FUNCTION INDEPENDENTLY
Affected officers return to their former stations-DSS source By Soni Daniel, Northern Region Editor Apparently not ready to tread on war path with the Presidency, the acting Director General of the Department of State Services, Matthew Seiyefa, has bowed to the directive of the Presidency to stop the reorganization of key staff until further notice. The move by the acting DG to breathe new lease of life into the affairs of the agency by realigning some key staff had pitched him against a top presidential aide, who sidestepped the National Security Adviser and ordered Seiyefa to jettison the new postings with immediate effect. A top source knowledgible in the exercise said that following the order by the Presidency to the DG to discontinue with the reorganization, no fewer than 30 senior directors and management staff, who had been moved to other states and Abuja, were on Monday ordered to return to their former posts until further notice.
The source said that although what Seiyefa did was a routine redeployment of key staff for effective operations, those opposed to him and his administration reported to the Presidency that he was ‘busy removing APC loyalists and replacing them with supporters of a rival political party’. “Once the allegation of political bias was raised against the acting DG, some powerful persons felt that it was necessary to stop Seiyefa without even looking at the merit of that allegation.
“The implication of what they have succeeded in doing is that the service has now been hijacked by politicians and it is very dangerous for the operatives, who are supposed to be pure and non-partisan professionals in the discharge of their duties to Nigeria,” a source said.
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