The straight metal jacket thinking circus that the holder of the office has to be a retired Army General makes this kind of thinking most unfortunate, it is however, one of the reasons we find ourselves in this security quagmire of today. Thus, began our gradual and almost permanent decent into the militarization of the office of the NSA. Ismail Gwarzo who was Abacha’s NSA and Mallam Nuhu Ribadu. So far, Nigeria had Nine National Security Advisors, right from the inception of the office, out of which only two had no Before that period, all the former DGs of the NSO were the Chief security advisors to the President of the time.
Gradually dismantling the NSO into three formidable, security organisations namely the State Security Services (SSS) now DSS, the National Intelligence Agency ( NIA) and the Defense Intelligence Agency ( DIA). Prior to the creation of the Office of the NSA, Lt Col Aliyu Mohammed Gusau was given the task of re-organizing the security architecture of the Country, which he did painstakingly. In the year 1993, January to be precise, the office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) was created and manned by Lt. Lt col Aliyu Mohammed Gusau was given that office, which was gradually mutating into something new. The Ibrahim Babangida Presidency replaced the Office of the DG NSO with that of the Coordinator of National Security. Umaru Shinkafi, a Police officer, as the DG NSO who was succeeded by Ambassador Mohammed Lawan Rafindadi, a career diplomat who rose through the ranks of the research Department (RD) of the ministry of foreign affairs. During the second republic,President Shehu Shagari appointed Alh.
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