The Department of State Service (DSS) has written to President Bola Tinubu to approve the release of his chief security officer Adegboyega Fasasi to proceed on a strategic training course.
According to sources quoted by The Nation, director-general of the DSS Tosin Ajayi wrote to Tinubu seeking approval.
The newspaper said it learnt that Rasheed Lawal, a deputy director at the secret police, has been appointed as Fasasi’s replacement.
Lawal is said to have assumed his new duty at the Presidential Villa.
“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 was quoted as saying.
The DSS had yet to make an official statement on the development as of press time.
