December 23, (THEWILL) – The Police Service Commission (PSC) has cancelled the three-year extension of service approved for Abdulkarim Dauda, a former Chief Personal Security Officer (CPSO) to President Muhammadu Buhari....CONTINUE READING
The Commission also ordered Dauda, a Commissioner of Police, to immediately proceed on retirement.
Dauda, said to be Buhari’s nephew, was asked to refund all the salaries he had collected since January 2020, when he should have left the service.
A statement by the Spokesman of the Commission, Ikechukwu Ani, said the decisions were taken by the PSC at its 13th plenary meeting, held between Monday and Tuesday in Abuja.
THEWILL reports that President Buhari along with the Police Council, had on October 10, 2019, approved a three-year Extension of Service for Dauda, who clocked the constituted 35 years as a civil servant in January 2020.
By the president’s approval, Dauda, who was enlisted into the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) as a Cadet Officer on January 1, 1985, would have remained in office till May 13, 2023, when he was 60 years old.
The then Force Secretary, AIG Usman Baba, now the IG, had in a signal conveying Dauda’s Service extension directed the force’s Department of Information Technology to amend their records to reflect the development.
A signal with reference number 23853/FS/FHQ/ABJ/46, had read, “The President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Chairman, Police Council, has graciously approved the extension of service of CP Abdulkarim Dauda to May 13, 2023, when he would have attained 60 years of age. Commissioner, Information Technology, amend your records please.”
Prior to his posting to the State House as CPSO to the President, Dauda had served in different police commands and formations, including the Sokoto State Command, Force Criminal Department, Lagos, Katsina State Command, Lagos State Command, Edo State Command, Police College, Kaduna, and Kano State Command and was promoted to the rank of commissioner of police in 2018
The CPSO office was created by ex-President Goodluck Jonathan to pave the way for his aide-de-camp, Moses Jitoboh, to be part of his personal security structure.
But a few months after Buhari’s inauguration in May, 2019, his nephew was redeployed to serve as his CPSO.
The decision to extend Dauda’s stay in the force had then generated tension in the PSC as senior officials regard Buhari’s action as a usurpation of the PSC’s powers and a violation of the 1999 Constitution.
But briefing newsmen on the revocation of the 3-year extension of service on Tuesday, the PSC Commissioner representing the media, Austin Braimoh, said Dauda had written to the commission seeking promotion to AIG when the illegality in his records was discovered.
He stated, “Dauda wrote to us seeking promotion to AIG and when we checked his records, we found that he obtained a tenure extension which did not follow the due process.
“We found many illegalities in his records and cancelled his tenure extension.
“He has been asked to retire and he will also refund all the salaries he received from January 2020 till date.”
