A United Kingdom-based Nigerian journalist, Jafar Jafar, has accused the immediate-past director-general of the Department State Services (DSS), Yusuf Magaji Bichi, of turning the elite security service into ‘a graveyard of career aspirations, an orchard of nepotism and an armed corps of 40 Blantyre Crescent’. Pointblanknews.com reports that No.
40, Blantyre Street is known as the address of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) headquarters in Wuse II District of Abuja. Jafar, who’s the publisher of the Nigeria-based Daily Nigerian online newspaper, specifically accused Bichi of lowering the recruitment bar at the DSS by removing multi-layer screening process to recruit personnel who couldn’t even pass a private security company’s aptitude test. In a lengthy post on his X handle (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday, he also alleged that Bichi’s wife was unduly dabbling in the affairs of the secret police organisation to the extent of influencing recruitment, promotion and discipline of its personnel.
The journalist, who incidentally hails from Kano State like the former DSS boss, therefore, called on the newly appointed director-general, Adeola Ajayi, to review some of Bichi’s actions and reset the SSS. Jafar said: “The former DG of SSS, Yusuf Magaji Bichi, has turned an otherwise elite, professionally-run service into a graveyard of career aspirations, an orchard of nepotism and an armed corps of 40 Blantyre Crescent. He lowered the recruitment bar, removed .