Secret Memo: National Intelligence Agency Directors Ask Buhari To Stop Signing Documents He Doesn’t Understand —Report

Directors in the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA) have asked President Muhammadu Buhari to desist from appending his seal on decisions he does not understand.

The directors in a secret memo unanimously noted with dismay several decisions Buhari has made after being “deliberately” misguided by his aides and advisers as a result of “selfishness”.

All these they attributed to the president’s inability to pay rapt attention to matters, Peoples Gazette reports. 

“As the head of this massive entity call Nigeria, sometimes your aides, advisers and handlers, may, out of selfishness and vested personal interest, deliberately mislead you, to unwittingly do some things against your known principles, unfortunately, because, they know that sometimes, due to some urgent numerous state matters that need your urgent attention you may not necessarily be too meticulous about everything,” the directors said in the letter.

The letter was written to Buhari amid claims that the President is considering tenure extension for the current NIA director-general, Ahmed Abubakar. 

Appointed on January 10, 2018, Abubakar’s tenure is expected to expire in January 2022.

The directors described Buhari’s decision on the tenure elongation as a “wrong one based on a wrong advice”. Nonetheless, they admitted that some of the president’s decisions are borne out of inadequate facts of situations.

“We learnt that the tenure of the current DG, which comes to an end in January 2022, is being considered (for extension) or has been secretly renewed,” the spy chiefs noted.

They alleged the repeated and “intense lobby” for tenure elongation for the heads of the security agencies.

“We have known all along that there has been clandestine and sometimes open intense lobby to mislead you to take the wrong decision, as was done in the last appointment,” they said.

“Please excuse our use of this language to describe your last decision on this matter as a wrong one based on very wrong advice. With all sense of humility and modesty.”

The NIA directors believed the president could not have approved the appointment of Abubakar in 2018 if he had been duly informed about circumstances against his appointment. 

“There is no way you will knowingly approve any illegality and/or anything done without due process as the last appointment of the current DG,” stressed the spy chiefs.

They pointed out that Buhari flouted the National Security Agencies Act, which specified that the NIA DG should be appointed on the advice of the national security adviser.

The spy chiefs said Babagana Monguno, the current NSA, had told the National Assembly that he was unaware of Abubakar’s appointment when the president authorised it in 2018.

Controversies had trailed the appointment of the current director-general, as critics, including a Bauchi senator, Isa Misau, argued that Mr Abubakar was unqualified for the position. 

Many have described the President’s decision as a “breach of national security.”

Saharareporters

BREAKING: Terrorists Planning Attacks in Abuja During Festivities: Immigration Warns

The Nigeria Immigration Service has raised alarm over plot by foreign terrorists to launch attacks in the capital city of Abuja during the festivities.

The warning was contained in an intelligence letter titled “Terrorists plan attacks in Abuja” addressed to its zonal, regional comptrollers and commanders, intimating them of plans by foreign and local terrorists to attack Abuja between the 17th and 31st of December 2021.

“The Office of the Ag CGI is in receipt of a Security Report (URGENT) from the Presidency (OSGF).

“The import is about a looming attack on Nigeria’s Capital City. Abuja, between 17th and 31 December, 2021.” The letter said

The letter from the office of the Acting Comptroller General of the service, stated that a certain Algerian national named Drahmane Ould Ali aka Mohammed Ould Sidat and a Nigerien accomplice Zaheen Aminom are on their way to Nigeria from Mali to carry out terror attacks in Abuja.

The letter also revealed that the duo also have four Nigerian accomplices who are already embedded in the country.

“The planned attack is purportedly being led by one DRAHMANE. OULD ALL, aka Mohammed Ould Sidat, an Algerian national to be assisted by one Zahid Aminon, a Nigerien national.

“The report indicates the duo are enroute Nigeria from Mali through Gan and Niger Republic, riding a white Toyota Hilux van with Reg. No-AG157EKY. That these two had four Nigerian accomplices who are already embedded in the country.

“It is further reported that Ali holds Algerian Diplomatic Passport with the name Najim Ould Ibrahim.” It said

The Acting Comptroller General however, charged the zonal and regional comptrollers to beef up security across entry and exit points in the country to forestall the planned attacks.

Parts of Nigeria have been ravaged by terrorists activities blamed majorly on Boko Haram terror groups and its sister group, the Islamic state of West African Province (ISWAP). The duo have been blamed for various terror attacks in the country including the capital Abuja.

Recall that in August 2011, Boko Haram terrorists bombed the United Nations building in the capital Abuja, killing at least 18 people.

FDA approves first injectable treatment to prevent HIV infection

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an injectable form of GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK) cabotegravir drug that is given every two months to prevent an HIV infection.

The injection — Apretude — to prevent the virus that causes Aids is aimed as an alternative to daily pills and has been approved for use in at-risk adults and adolescents.

Its first two doses are administered one month apart and then the injection is given every two months thereafter.

Patients can start their treatment with Apretude or take oral cabotegravir for four weeks to assess how well they tolerate the drug.

Apretude comes with a boxed warning to not use the drug unless a negative HIV test is confirmed. A boxed warning on the label is FDA’s strictest warning and calls attention to serious or life-threatening risks of a drug.

Apretude’s approval was based on a final study showing it was found to be 66% more effective in preventing HIV infections than Gilead’s Truvada daily oral pills.

Cabotegravir and the daily oral pill were both well tolerated in the study, which was conducted on men who engage in sexual activity with other men and transgender women who have sex with men, putting them at risk of contracting HIV.

(Reuters)

Swear you’ve no hands in Southern Kaduna ethnic cleansing – IPOB to El-Rufai

…..El-rufai should know that he has a date at the ICC

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Wednesday asked Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State to swear he knows nothing about the election ethnic cleansing of non Fulani communities in Southern Kaduna.

IPOB said no amount of cover-up would exonerate him from the genocide in Southern Kaduna.

The separatist group made the remark while berating El-Rufai for comparing IPOB with terrorist organization.

A statement by IPOB’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, reads: “We are the global movement and family of the indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB) under the command and leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

Our attention has been drawn to the laughable and shameful statement the midget of Kaduna State, Alhaji El’ Rufai where he compared the peaceful IPOB global movement with Fulani terrorists and bandits rampaging Southern Kaduna.

“It is not only provocative but a mischievous display of ignorance for El’ Rufai to compare freedom seekers with blood thirsty terrorists. El Rufai should stop playing to the gallery.

“No amount of cover-ups can exonerate him from the ongoing genocide in Southern Kaduna by Fulani bandits.

“He should cover his head in shame for admitting that he is paying the mass murderers in Kaduna State. He should know that he has a date at the ICC.”

IPOB dared El-Rufai to name one terror it has committed.

“We challenge him to mention any act of terror commited by IPOB. Our only crime against El Rufai and his fellow mass murderers is that we refused to allow FULANI bandits any breeding ground in Biafra land.

“Malam El-Rufai should swear by Allah that he knows nothing about the ongoing ethnic cleansing of non Fulani communities in Southern Kaduna and re-naming of their towns to Fulani communities,” the group added.

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