The Department of State Services (DSS) has replaced Adegboyega Fasasi as chief security officer (CSO) to President Bola Tinubu.
Also, the secret police has deployed Rasheed Lawal, a deputy director within the secret police, as the president’s new CSO.
NewsBand gathered that the decision for the replacement reportedly came from Tosin Ajayi, the new Director-General of DSS, who sought Mr Tinubu’s approval for Fasasi’s temporary reassignment.
Though, no official statement has been issued in respect to the reason for Fasasi’s sudden removal but some media reports are saying Mr Fasasi was removed so as to enable him to attend a strategic training program.
“The angle I want us to look at it from is the fact that such exercise as this ‘change of guards’ 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 trusted men on critical beats, the Presidency and the office of the CSO to the President being number one on that list,” a source familiar with that development said.