The Department of State Services DSS has confirmed the ‘compulsory retirement ‘of former deputy director, Marilyn Ogar and 44 other directors who all lost their promotions following President Muhammadu Buhari’s nullification of the exercise.
Although no official statement has been issued by the Service regarding the compulsory retirement of Ms. Ogar and others officials, a security source confirmed that the former spokesperson was retired on Wednesday – seven years before she was due to leave service.
It will be recalled that Ogar was transferred to Maiduguri, Borno state, in July, but the posting was put on hold following insinuations that it was “punitive”.
A senior official of the DSS who confirmed the retirement to said it was “immediate and compulsory”.
As DSS spokesperson, Ogar was responsible for defending the activities of the agency in the media and she is believed to be paying for some of her pronouncements, notably in the face-off with the Bring Back Our Girls movement and the DSS raids on the Lagos office of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
It was gathered that the new Director General of the service, Lawal Daura, set up a panel headed by a retired director of training to investigate the allegations against Ms. Ogar and other staff of the agency.
Ms. Ogar was alleged to have collected several trucks of DPK (Dual Purpose Kerosene) as bribe shortly before gubernatorial elections in Osun state, playing partisan roles, among other breaches of service codes.
The panel therefore recommended that she be compulsorily retired, alongside others also found guilty for professional misconducts during the last administration.