Buhari charges DSS to stop suicide bombing

By ‎Ben Agande,
 Abuja. President Muhammadu Buhari has given a marching order to the department of state services to strengthen it’s intelligence gathering capability in order to stop the state of suicide bombing in the midst northern part of the country.


 The president, according to a source at the intelligence agency office gave the order to the Director General of the DSS, Lawal Daura few days before the multiple suicide bombing in Damaturu Friday during the Eid prayer to mark the end of the Ramadan fast. Lawal Daura  Lawal Daura  It would be recalled that since President Buhari took oath of office, ‎more than six hundred persons have been killed by Boko Haram mostly through suicide bombing in different cities in the midst northern parts of the country.  Worried by the development, President t Buhari summoned Lawal Daura to the presidential Villa and reportedly told him to stop the suicide bombing in the country.  A source at the DSS who was privy to the encounter told Vanguard in confidence that the president told the directo General of the service that he appointed him to reposition the service and not to play politics.  “The president t told the DG that he was appointed to provide intelligence on how to stop the killings by the Boko Haram terrorists not to engage in politics. The president was very stern with the DG on his expectations and we believe that the pressure will be extended to personnel very soon” the source who does not want his name in print said.  Vanguard gathered that upon his return from the Presidential Villa, the DG summoned personnel of the Intelligence department and charged them to deliver on the president’s directives.  It was gathered that be cause of the recent mass transfer of personnel of the service by the new DG, most of the service experienced analysts were moved from their desk without replacement and in order to meet the presidential directives, it was also gathered that some of the transferred personnel may be recalled back to the headquarters, a source close to the leadership of the DSS told Vanguard.