A day after President Bola Tinubu resumed his two-week leave, his Chief Security Officer, Adegboyega Fasasi, has been replaced as he is said to be due for training.
The Department of State Service (DSS) withdrew Fasasi and has replaced it with another officer of the Service, Rasheed Atanda Lawal, a Deputy Director, has been appointed as a replacement for Fasasi.
‘The Nation; reports that although details of the development were still scarce Sunday evening when it became known, it was gathered that Fasasi, who has served as CSO since Tinubu became President, was replaced because he has been sent on professional training.
The paper quoted a source as saying, under anonymous conditions, said Fasasi’s removal and replacement was not strange, adding that the outgoing officer ought to have anticipated it because it is a common practice in the Service.
According to the source, whenever a new DG comes to office at the DSS, he is most likely to embark on reorganization in various areas of the Service, especially around the President.
“The angle I want us to actually look at it from is the fact that such exercise as this ‘change of guards’ usually happens when the DSS gets a new DG. You know they deal strictly with intelligence and operate in secrecy, the new DG will always prefer to have his own trusted men on critical beats, the Presidency and the office of the SCO to the President being number one on that list”, the source said.
As at the time of filing this report, there was yet to be any official confirmation of the movements in the CSO’s office.
