The Arewa Youth Forum AYF has Commended President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for appointing Mr. Adeola Oluwatosin Ajayi, as the new Director General of the Department of State Security Service (DSS).
Speaking in a Press Conference in Kaduna, the President of the Forum, Ahmed Mohammed Zagi said “Ajayi is a thoroughbred and versatile security officer, recruited into the service in 1990 as a cadet officer.
To this end, he said Ajayi will bring over three decades of experience to his new role, having served in various capacities within the DSS, including Director of Operations.
It was for this reason that the,”Arewa Youth Forum (AYF), the Premier umbrella platform of all Youth organisations in the North and FCT-Abuja, which has structures in the Nineteen Northern States, some Southern States, the FCT and the Diaspora, wish to commend His Excellency, President Ahmed Bola Tinubu, GCFR, for the recent well deserved appointment of a Son of the Soil, Mr. Adeola Oluwatosin Ajayi, MON as the new Director General, Department of Security Service (DSS), coming at this critical time of our status as a sovereign Nation.
According to the Arewa Youth as,” an Organisation that champions the course of good governance through close monitoring of National issues, we are duty bound to voice out our position regarding this golden appointment, which we firmly believe will go a long way to mitigate the ongoing security challenges in the country and especially the North-Western part of Nigeria.
“For those of us who have known Mr. Ajayi over the years, we are bold to say that he is thoroughbred and versatile security officer, recruited into the service in 1990 as a cadet officer.
“As part of the officer’s career development provision of the Security Department, he has received several trainings in diverse areas of Management, Security Leadership, and Critical Thinking, Human Resources among others from within and outside the Country.
“On a further note, he is diligent, resilient, genteel, proactive and analytic. He has therefore comes to his new position and role with the desired wealth of experience, capacity and immense goodwill.
It is pertinent to note that the DSS’s primary responsibilities in Nigeria, and includes counter-intelligence, medical intelligence, economic intelligence, internal security, counter-terrorism, and surveillance, as well as investigating many forms of significant offences against the state. The new DG therefore is ever ready to deliver on this mandate.
“To sum it up, he is a crack senior operative who has delivered on many sensitive operations and paid his dues to head the DSS, he said.
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