DSS replaces Tinubu’s Chief Security Officer

The Department of State Service (DSS) has withdrawn Adegboyega Fasasi as Chief Security Officer (CSO) to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Daily Trust gathered that Rasheed Atanda Lawal, a Deputy Director at the secret police, has been appointed as replacement for Fasasi.

Sources at the Presidential Villa hinted our correspondent that Fasasi, who has served as CSO since Tinubu became President, was sent on a professional training.

According to sources privy to the development, the Director-General of the DSS, Tosin Ajayi, had requested President Tinubu to approve the release of Fasasi to proceed on a strategic training course.

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Lawal is said to have assumed his new duty at the Presidential Villa.

Those conversant with the workings of the DSS said Fasasi’s removal and replacement is not strange, adding that the outgoing officer ought to have anticipated it because it is a common practice in the Service.

The source also said 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.

“Yes, I heard he has been replaced with another officer because he is being sent on a professional training course. At least that is the reason for his removal that we know.

“Such redeployment is a common exercise, it 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 CSO to the President being number one on that list”, the source said.

As at the time of filing this report, there was no official confirmation of the redeployment.