DSS fires ex-SSS spokesperson, Marilyn Ogar over corruption allegation

The Department of State Services has sent two directors and 13 other senior officials on compulsory retirement.

A signal from the leadership of the service issued on Wednesday night, also named the former DSS spokesperson, Marilyn Ogar, a deputy director, as one of those affected by the development.

Premium Times had on March 26 exclusively reported how Ms. Ogar received trucks of kerosine in bribe, and then proceeded to disparage the then opposition APC on television and other media before and after the Osun governorship election.

In the exclusive report, which sources in the service said triggered internal investigation by the new service leadership, this newspaper reported that Ms. Ogar was treated to a special offer the former Nigerian administration utilised in appeasing dubious officials hired to do hatchet jobs, and other Nigerians regarded as troublesome.

Premium Times gathered that the new Director General of the service, Lawal Daura, set up a panel headed by a retired director of training to investigate the allegations against Ms. Ogar and other staff of the agency.

Mrs. Ogar, sources said, was found guilty of the corruption allegation against her as well as for playing partisan role that ridiculed the agency in the eyes of the Nigerian public.

The panel therefore recommended that she be compulsorily retired, alongside others also found guilty for professional misconducts during the last administration…

– Punch & Premium Times