Says Bichi’s wife lorded over the Service
Nigerian investigative journalist, Ja’afar Ja’afar, has accused the immediate past Director-General (DG) of the Department of State Service, (DSS), Yusuf Magaji Bichi, of turning the Agency into a graveyard of career aspirations.
Ja’afar said that Bichi, while in office, recruited the highest number of Cotonou graduates into the Service and allowed his wife to lord over the Service by influencing recruitment, promotion and discipline in the Agency.
Recall that Bichis replacement was announced in an issued statement on Monday by the media aide to President Bola Tinubu, Ajuri Ngelale. In his stead, Tinubu appointed Adeola Oluwatosin Ajayi as the new DSS Director-General.
In a post on his X handle yesterday, the journalist, who suggested that the Agency does not only need a factory reset but flushing, 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 multi-layer screening process to recruit personnel who couldnt even pass Halogen Security aptitude test”.
Ja’afar Ja’afar further said, Bichi arguably recruited the highest number of Cotonou graduates into the Service. He willfully extended the tenure of some retired directors in his good book for years, killing the ambitions of the aspiring directors.
He allowed his wife to lord over the Service, influencing recruitment, promotion and discipline. As a peasant socialite and nouveau riche, she always oppressed people with a superfluity of everything, at the expense of public funds. She moved around in a long motorcade with dozens of Tavor-wielding personnel, harassing motorists. She was a stormy petrel, who was majorly in the news for either assaulting her tailor for failing to meet a deadline or picking a fight with opposition politicians.
According to Ja’afar, His impudent, spoiled brat son shrugged-off public criticism to gleefully display a fleet of luxury cars on social media. At the expense of public funds, he has a number DSS operatives giving him cover at football arena, nightclub and political campaign rallies”.
The journalist urged the new DG, Adeola Ajayi, review the cases of detainees and be professional in the discharge of his duty “and keep his family away from meddling in the affairs of the Agency. The Service does not only need a factory reset but flushing!.
