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Finally, Buhari Kicks DSS Out Of Aso Rock

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After months of speculations, officers of the Department of State Services (DSS) who had served as the security details of the President in the past administration, have been posted out of the Presidential Villa to various state commands.

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According to sources at the Presidential Villa who spoke to Vanguard, the order signalling the redeployment of the 150 DSS officials from Aso Rock came on Friday, August 28, 2015 following a directive by theADC to the President.

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It would be recalled that the DSS personnel who had traditionally served as bodyguards to the president since 1999 were directed to vacate the Presidential Villa shortly after the swearing in of President Muhammadu Buhari.

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The source availed that a few of the DSS personnel were assigned to the DSS Headquarters, while most of them were redeployed to various state commands of the service.

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He said: “Almost all of our personnel who were body guards in the villa have been transferred out of the state House. A new crop of body guards who were trained for the purpose have taken over. They will take over from the soldiers who were initially drafted to man the various beats hitherto occupied by the DSS personnel. That phase of transition is over.”

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