Former Pres. Jonathan’s body guards posted out of the Presidential Villa

After months of not knowing their fate, the Department of State Services
personnel who served as Body Guards to President Goodluck Jonathan
have been posted out of the Villa to various state commands.
Reliable sources at the Presidential Villa said that the signal for the posting
of the over 150 body guards who had remained redundant following the
directive by the ADC to President Buhari that they should leave the
presidential villa came yesterday.
It would be recalled that following the swearing in of President Buhari,
personnel of the Department of State Services who had traditionally served
as Body Guards to the president were ordered to leave the Villa on the
instructions of the ADC to the president.
According to the source while a few of the DSS personnel were posted to the
headquarters of the DSS, most of them were posted to various state
commands of the service.
The source 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” the source said.
About 250 personnel of the DSS are expected to take over the job of
protecting the president from the military personnel.
It was gathered that the reason why they were replaced was sue to the bitter
experience during the sallah prayers when president Buhari was almost
mobbed by enthusiastic Nigerians who overwhelmed the military men that
were supposed to protect him.
President Buhari himself confessed that but for God’s protection, he would
have been mobbed by the crowd that thronged the Eid prayer ground.

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