As the news of the appointment of a new National Security Adviser breaks, (To help find better solutions to the crippling security in Nigeria, Boko Haram especially) Below is profile of the new NSA, get familiar.....
The new National Security Adviser, retired Col. Sambo Mohammed Dasuki, comes from the royal family of Sokoto: He is the son of the former Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Ahmed Dasuki, who was deposed by the military regime of the late Gen. Sani Abacha.
Believed to be close to former dictator Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, Abacha dismissed Dasuki and some military officers in 1993. Dasuki’s closeness to Babangida was said to have come about from the fact that he was once the dictator’s ADC, and he was actively involved in the 1985 coup that brought Babangida to power.
Dasuki later fled to the United States in 1995 after he was accused by the Abacha regime of being a party to a coup plot allegedly led by retired Col. Lawan Gwadabe.
On his return, former President Olusegun Obasanjo appointed him as the managing director of the National Security and Printing Company at the behest of Babangida.
A director of Regency Alliance, an insurance company, Dasuki attended the Washington DC and George Washington University, where he obtained a BA in International Relations and MA in Security Policy Studies respectively.
He had his military training in several institutions in Nigeria and abroad including the Nigerian Army School of Artillery, Oklahoma, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth Kensas.
His major task is to arrest the Boko Haram insurgency, which is threatening to spread into other parts of the country, apart from the North.
He will also be expected to tackle militancy in the South-South, where Nigeria derives its main source of revenue.
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ReplyDeleteI'm believing that our president have made a good appointment. Going by Colonel DASUKI'S profile, it is my prayer that he succeeds in his assignment.
ReplyDeleteMr President, i salute your courage at this trying moment of our nation's existence. May God grant you more grace tn drop more non performing members of your cabinate.
This is utterly an indispensible misfortune dat shall lock nigerians soon,hmmmn birds of the same feathers ...... together.
ReplyDeleteOk na let see what happen next, let it not look like Far... law...
ReplyDeleteThe appointment is a poison chalice. If he does not perform well and is sacked the northern elites will say it is further evidence plot against them from their birthright to rule nigeria and push Boko haram on to more chaos. They should not have sacked him but made the whole north a fully occupied zone and under emmergency law and curfew till the people are worn down. These terrorist are harbour by the people so we should take advise from Isreal
ReplyDeleteGod we have sinned against you as a nation. Forgive us as a nation. Help Mr President in the task of keeping this country together. As a Muslim, I pray, God to expose and destroy the enemies of this nation who bent on killing innocent Nigerians, Peace and security are all in your hands oh God. you have the capacity to change things for the better. Oh God of Moses, Isah, Joseph, David and Muhammad, all is within your powers. restore peace into this nation and put us on the path of growth and development. So shall it be in the mighty name of the Most High.
ReplyDeleteJust hope that as Mr. President has replaced Southern NSA with a Northern NSA, he will also replace Northern Minister of Defence with a Southern Minister.
ReplyDeleteWat u guys should kn is that we are all one, wherever he replaced from is not a crime all we need in this country is peace.
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