Why Buhari fired his CSO

More facts have emerged on why President Muhammadu Buhari fired his Chief Security Officer, Abdulrahman Mani.
Mani, sources in the Presidency said, overreached himself during the crisis over the role operatives of the Department of State Services should play in the Presidential Villa.
The CSO, who has since been replaced by Abubakar Usman, was said to have incurred the wrath of Buhari by countermanding the orders of the President’s Aide-De-Camp, Lieutenant Colonel Lawal Abubakar, on the DSS role in the Villa.
Abubakar’s order, which was said to have emanated from Buhari, was for operatives of the DSS to stop giving the President close body protection.
Abubakar had issued a memo removing the DSS officials from 10 beats they were in charge.
This included being in the inner perimeter of the Villa.
They were then restricted to the outer perimeter.
The decision was said to be part of efforts to enhance general security within the Presidential Villa.
Personnel of the Armed Forces and the Nigeria Police were to take over the roles of the DSS in providing close body protection for the President.
However, the former CSO in a memo dated June 26, 2015 told the DSS officials to disregard the ADC’s order.
Not only did Mani countermanded the order of Abubakar via the memo, he also allegedly leaked it to the press.
The memo, which was copied several government functionaries, read in part: “In fact, the issues raised in the aforementioned (ADC’s) circular tend to suggest that the author may have ventured into a not-too-familiar terrain.
“The extant practice, the world over, is that VIP protection, which is a specialised field, is usually handled by the Secret Service, under whatever nomenclature.
“They usually constitute the inner core security ring around every principal. The Police and the military by training and mandate are often required to provide secondary and tertiary security cordons around venues and routes.
“However, all other security agencies, including the army, the police and others, also have their roles to play. It is on this note that heads of all security agencies currently in the Presidential Villa and their subordinates are enjoined to key into the existing command and control structure. They are to work in harmony with each other in full and strict compliance with the demands of their statutorily prescribed responsibilities.
“Meanwhile, joint training programmes and other incentives will be worked out in the days ahead to ensure that all security personnel at the Presidential Villa are properly educated to understand their statutory roles and responsibilities.
“This is with a view to avoiding obvious grandstanding, overzealousness, limited knowledge or outright display of ignorance in future.”
Buhari was said to have considered the attitude of Mani as projecting the Villa as a place where there is no discipline, especially since the order emanated from him (the President).