Daura betrayed Buhari to Saraki, says ex-aide in a tell-all interview
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mr abdulrahman said when they resumed they always closed late at work often at about 2am. what we were doing was mostly receiving ghana must go filled with cash brought by enemies of government to him1 abdulwahab abdulrahman a former assistant to the sacked director general of department of state services lawal daura has accused his former boss of extensive corruption and portrayed him as a man who serially betrayed his boss president muhammadu buhari for money1 he will go and get information on plans for senate president bukola saraki and then leak it to him he said1 the former aide of daura said he quit the agency in 2016 because of the scale of corruption and abuse there1 mr daura who led nigerias domestic spy agency since 2015 was abruptly fired on tuesday by acting president yemi osinbajo after he ordered a blockade of the national assembly1 mr abdulrahman said president buhari never knew daura until he was introduced to him by the late senator mustapha bukar in 2015. he then disclosed how daura wormed his way into the heart of president buharis cousin mamman daura1 he claimed that after daura was appointed in july 2015 daura was receiving money from everyone including the presidents enemies1 abdulrahman who retired as a senior dss official claimed in a interview that daura also betrayed buhari by serving as a mole for bukola saraki the senate president1 the rate of corruption on that fourth floor was too much and the president doesnt deserve this he said1 similar allegation emerged tuesday after mr dauras removal with many administration supporters accusing him of working for mr saraki against the government1 on wednesday mr saraki said claims he compromised mr daura in respect of the national assembly siege constituted an insult on the intelligence sic ignorance of nigerians1 but as premium times reminded its readers messrs. saraki and daura clearly enjoyed cooperation in the past. in the heated days of the national assemblys standoff with the executive over the appointment of ibrahim magu as head of the economic and financial crimes commission it was mostly memos from the sss that the lawmakers referenced as basis for rejecting mr magu1 asked what the real issue was between mr magu and the dg sss mr abdulrahman said mr daura wanted mr magu to share information on high profile cases with him1 magu is a smart officer and he knew daura wanted to use such information to extract money from people. he told daura to his face that i cant report to you i only report to the president who appointed me he said1