\u00a0<\/strong>in the last three months.<\/p>\nThe plight of Leah Sharibu and Boko Haram\u2019s execution of Hauwa Amina Liman, one of the two kidnapped International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) workers were said to have created some intelligence gaps, which Daura was believed to have filled in the past.<\/p>\n
A Presidency source confirmed that the President \u201chad audience\u201d with the former DG of DSS. This is the first time Buhari has met the former spymaster since he left office.<\/p>\n
\u201dTheir meeting had to do with a pending report on the invasion of the National Assembly before the President and the nation\u2019s security apparatchik,\u201d the source said, pleading not to be named because of the \u201csensitivity\u201d of the matter.<\/p>\n
\u201cApart from reading the report, the President used the opportunity to hear Daura\u2019s side of the security siege to the National Assembly by DSS operatives,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
The meeting followed what the source described as pressure from Dasuki\u2019s associate including members of the President\u2019s kitchen cabinet.<\/p>\n
\u201dWhile some want the President to foreclose Daura\u2019s case, others have insisted that the President should re-engage the former DG of DSS.<\/p>\n
\u201dForces opposed to Daura have defended his sack by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo as a timely decision to save the nation\u2019s democracy. They also see Daura\u2019s return under any guise as a slight on the VP and a signal that the Presidency is disunited,\u201d said the source, adding:<\/p>\n
\u201dThey also claim that Daura did more damage to the security system and brought much strain to the principle of separation of powers by the three arms of government, including the Executive, the Legislature and the Judiciary. They pointed at the\u00a0 arbitrary invasion, arrest and detention of judges by DSS.\u201d<\/p>\n
But, to\u00a0Daura\u2019s associate what is more important is \u201cthe larger picture of the nation\u2019s security\u201d. They claim that Daura\u2019s contributions far outweigh the infraction of August 7 2018, more so when the ex-DG of DSS has insisted that he did not act alone.<\/p>\n
Said the source: \u00a0\u201dThe pro-Daura elements attributed the recent intelligence setback in managing Boko Haram crisis in the Northeast to the absence of the ex-DG of DSS. The Army and the Air Force have lived up to expectations but the intelligence back up has suffered in the last three months, leading to the incessant ambush of troops.<\/p>\n
\u201dThey claimed that Daura was a key link to Boko Haram contacts and negotiation with the insurgents which led to the release of Chibok and 105\u00a0 girls of Government Girls\u2019 Technical College, Dapchi in Yobe State even without the knowledge of the Nigerian Army and the Nigerian Air Force.<\/p>\n
\u201dThey pointed to the dilemma of a Dapchi school girl, Leah Sharibu, and felt only Daura ( as a member of the nation\u2019s security set-up) can address it.<\/p>\n
Investigations revealed that there is a plot by some forces to mount pressure on the President to appoint Daura to another top security office .<\/p>\n
Another source added: \u201cNo doubt, there are plans to re-draw the nation\u2019s security apparatchik to respond to recent challenges in the Northeast and other parts of the country. What is on the card is for the President to re-engage Daura and give him a higher responsibility. But the President is also mindful of the possible backlash such a measure will attract.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA major challenge is the moral burden the return of Daura might create for President Muhammadu Buhari because Nigerians will see him as indulging Daura and making the former DG of DSS indispensable.\u201d<\/p>\n
While sacking Daura, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who was then the Acting President, told the nation that the disciplinary measure was necessary to end impunity in the country.<\/p>\n
He described the DSS operatives\u2019 invasion of the National Assembly as \u2018a gross violation of the constitutional order, rule of law and accepted notions of law and order.\u2019<\/p>\n
Inspector -General of Police Ibrahim Idris, in his report on the invasion of the National Assembly, claimed that Daura \u2018acted unilaterally, without informing the Presidency. He did not share or intimate other Security Agencies on the unlawful operations\u2019.<\/p>\n
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