For recruiting more operatives from the northwest than other regions, the State Security Services, SSS, has been called to question by the Federal Character Commission.
The SSS boss Lawan Daura got three months to explain why the agency took such decision—or get a sanction.
On April 28, Premium Times published an exclusive detailing how the secret service recruited 51, while all the six states in the south-south got 42 and the whole of southwest about 50 from.
The imbalance apparently favours the north. This is contrary to section 14 (3) of the 1999 constitution as amended.
The agency however circulated an unsigned statement in which it explained how other state had got more candidates than Katsina in previous recruitments.
Daura was said to be out of the country then. But the FCC chairman, Shettima Abba, said the commission needed time to take a position over the recruitment.
“In the Federal Character Commission, we are looking at the total number of indigenes of each state in a particular organisation,” the FCC boss said.
Abba pledged that investigation would be carried out to determine if the agency had breached any extant law relating to appointments in line with the rules of the FCC.
According to the FCC chairman, such lopsidedness occurred between 2014 and 2016.
But he said the commission has decided to look at the total number from each state and this will determine its action.
But from the DSS boss antecedents, many believe the federal government might just give him a pat on the wrist.
Daura report directly to President Muhammadu Buhari–instead of NSA Babagana Monguno. That breach of pecking order has been creating problem between the two.