The Directorate of State Service (DSS), has warned that the service will continue to adopt a comprehensive onslaught in handling unscrupulous politicians and the Islamic fundamentalists, Boko Haram, posing threat to national security in 2015.
The Director General of the service, Ekpenyong Ita, who gave the warning in his keynote address at the graduation ceremony of participants of the Executive Intelligence Management Course (EIMC) at its Institute for Security Studies in Abuja at the weekend, insisted that the service would make life unbearable for them.
“In the last five years, this service has recorded modest achievements. The government, public and other stakeholders have shown obvious approval of our efforts to ensure a safe, stable and indivisible Nigeria.
“I wish to reiterate that Nigeria is on the path of lasting growth and development. And no machina tion by uniformed terror elements, or unscrupulous politicians with divisive tendencies and other criminal elements will succeed against the nation. We owe it a duty to protect and ensure the indivisibility of the nation. This we must uphold in the face of enormous challenges,” he warned.
Enumerating the contributions of the service and readiness to uphold its mandate, the DSS boss stressed: “As a service, our response to prevailing threats to national security has been comprehensive.
“They include continuous human capacity development, extensive intelligence collection programme, and collaboration with stakeholders both within and outside the country. Our intelligence collection efforts make threat indicators explicit and are also geared towards ensuring the success of government policies and programmes,” he noted.
To the participants, the DSS boss, said: “I want to commend our graduates for their commitment and dedication to this programme. Your graduation is coming at a time when politicking ahead of 2015 general elections has reached its crescendo.
“This course has equipped you with requisite knowledge, exposure and expertise to ensure a safe and stable environment in which the political processes can find a full expression. Like every other country on earth today, Nigeria is grappling with its own share of global insecurity. “Our efforts in the institute have been geared towards improving the leadership skills at execu tive levels. This is because our approaches towards problem-solving are multi-dimensional, with every agency having a critical role to play.
As you leave this institute today, I want to prepare your mind that a greater quality of leadership will be expected and demanded of you in your areas of responsibilities,” he noted.
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