PRESIDENCY SACKS DAURA AS DIRECOR GENERAL OF STATE SECURITY SERVICE
The 65 year old former security boss, was born in Daura, Katsina State on August 5, 1953, retired from the SSS in 2013, having reached the statutory retirement age of 60. He had joined the service in 1982 and was a one-time Deputy Director, Presidential Communication, Command and Control Center at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
He also served as State Director at various times in many States of the country which include; Kano, Sokoto, Edo, Lagos, Osun and Imo. He attended Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, from 1977 – 1980.
Daura was the sixth director general of the SSS, one of the three security agencies created out of the defunct National Security Organisation in 1986,also attended various professional courses both home and abroad including the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, (NIPSS) Kuru. He succeeded Ita Ekpenyong, who was appointed DG of the agency on September 8, 2010.
He would be remembered for turning the secret police into an organisation that became notorious for illegal arrests and detention of citizens, abuse of court orders, deep partisanship and human rights abuses.
