SSS Retires Director Over Nasarawa Killings

The mass death of security officers in the hands of the Obatse Cults in Nassarawa State has taken its first casualty with the compulsory retirement of the Director of the State Security Service (SSS) Nasarawa State, Mr. Haliru Musa, under whose watch ten officers of the Service were murdered in an encounter with members of Ombatse cult group in Alakio village on May 9.

Report has it that the Director General of the SSS, Mr. Ita Ekpeyong had approved the retirement after the management had confirmed that Haliru was indicted through due process.

Contrary to earlier report in an Abuja-based medium, it was confirmed that Haliru was being sent on compulsory retirement rather than being transferred from Nasarawa.

“The Service has placed the Nasarawa State Director on compulsory retirement. The retirement was approved by the authorities this evening (Thursday),” the source said, adding that the retired director had been undergoing due interrogations and processes to determine his culpability in the massacre.

It was gathered that the management of the SSS was angry that Haliru took out officers on such expedition without informing the National Headquarters and while also failing to gather enough intelligence.

A source said that the former Director was compulsorily retired for failing to undertake enough surveillance and risking the lives of his officers and men.