The Reformed All Progressives Congress (r-APC) has hailed the removal of Mr. Lawal Daura, as the Director-General of the Department of State Security (DSS).
The party in commending the Acting President Prof Yemi Osinbajo, urged that he also sacks the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris.
Daura was sacked on Tuesday over the invasion of the National Assembly complex by masked operatives of the DSS.
Idris told State House correspondents on the same day, that the Police wasn’t involved in the take over of the National Assembly.
But National Publicity Secretary of the Reformed APC, Mr. Kassim Afegbua in a statement sent to Frontline News Online, condemned what he said was the politicization of security agencies.
The statement read in part: “The sacking of the Director-General of the Directorate of State Services (DSS) is good riddance to bad rubbish. Rather than devote energies and synergies into the Boko Haram fight and other cases of insecurity to give Nigerians a new lease of life, the DSS under Lawan Musa Daura has become one of a partisan lot against the collective interest of the State and Nigerians. Conveying masked operatives of the DSS to the hallowed ground of the National Assembly to subvert the will of the people against an arm of government is the most ridiculous conduct by trained Secret Service agents. In fact, the DSS has become more or less the armed wing of the APC.
“Secondly, the Acting President should as a matter of urgency sack the Inspector General of Police who has also shown careless disdain against the Nigerian people. He has not only abused his discretionary powers, he has converted the Nigeria Police Force to the presidency Police Force. The Police have become object of ridicule and disgrace.
“They have undermined statutory authority of the National Assembly in a manner that desecrates democracy, rule of law, due process and civilised democratic conduct. We are ashamed that Nigeria has become global laughing stock and butt of jokes across the world. By the actions of the Inspector General of Police, Nigeria democracy has come under serious threat”.
“Let us for once instil some sanity in our democratic practices. Let us assume our role as the giant of Africa both in deeds and practice.
“We cannot afford to continue to tolerate these brazen abuses, invasions and drunken use of raw power against institution of democracy, in a 21st century world where the attraction should be more about development and growth.
“At what point did we descend to this level of unruly behaviour and sheer political hooliganism? At what point did we miss the compass that should ordinarily take us away from this Pharaoh era, where wickedness, primitiveness and prebendalism appear to be the only thematic focus of a privileged few, trying in their greed and self-aggrandizement, to perpectually ridicule our collective sufferance? We weep for our dear country”, Afgebua added.
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