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The sack of the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS) Lawal Daura, is a win for Nigeria’s constitution, the Progressive People’s Alliance have said.
Mem of the DSS had on Tuesday invaded the National Assembly leading to the sack of Daura.
Reacting to the development on Wednesday in Abuja, National Chairman of the party Peter Ameh said the action of the Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, was commendable.
“We, in the PPA commend the acting president for that decision that he took. We believe that what he did has lifted his status in the eyes of the nation,” the chairman said.
“That has given him a status that is above a `talking’ acting president. We hope in the nearest future he would rise up to the occasion and deliver on the people’s mandate according to the Constitution.”
He added that “Apart from the fact that the executive controls the Police, Army, DSS and other security agencies, people don’t understand that without the laws and Appropriation Act of the National Assembly, the agencies cannot exist or operate.
“Under the constitution of Nigeria the three arms are co-equal. But, because our democracy is still young and we are still learning a lot of things, most times people tend to adjudge that the executive is superior to the two other arms.”