The Chief Security Officer (CSO) to President Muhammadu Buhari, Mr Auwal Maikano, has warned security personnel against graft and extortion from visitors to the Presidential Villa.
The
warning came barely two weeks after the Presidency issued circular
warning security personnel against allowing
persons driving vehicles
with tinted glasses access to the state House without proper scrutiny in
order to ward off Boko Haram insurgents.
Maikano
in a circular, C-in C/CSO/LTU/561, said his office had ``constituted a
committee to discreetly monitor the activities of all security personnel
working in the Presidential Villa’’ adding that anyone found wanting
would have himself to blame.
According to the
circular, the CSO to the President ``has observed with dismay the
unprofessional conduct of some officers and men of the security
department working in the Presidential Villa.
"These
disturbing acts such as pestering, escorting and hanging around
important dignitaries such as governors, ministers coming to the Villa
must stop.’’
Accordingly, Maikano warned that
begging for financial gratification and any form of soliciting for
assistance from visitors to the Villa must stop.
It
added that behaving in a manner inimical to the code of conduct of
security personnel posted to the Villa would attract severe sanctions.
The
circular added that this was the last warning to such violators of the
code of conduct and ethics of security personnel/State House Staff
working in the Villa.
The circular, addressed to
the various offices harbouring security personnel, urged the relevant
officials to draw the attention of the concerned personnel to the
circular for strict compliance.
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