Ex-DSS Director: Pantami’s Ministerial Appointment Exposed Flaws in Nigeria’s Security Vetting Process
Sunday Ehigiator
A retired Assistant Director of the Department of State Services (DSS), Dennis Amachree, has said the appointment of Isa Pantami as Minister of Communications and Digital Economy by former President Muhammadu Buhari raised national security concerns and exposed weaknesses in Nigeria’s security vetting process.
Amachree made the assertion in his memoir: ‘DSS @40: My Journey Behind the Shield’, chronicling his four decades in Nigeria’s intelligence service.
The retired DSS officer revisited the controversy that erupted in 2021 after old sermons and public statements in which Pantami allegedly expressed support for extremist groups, including al-Qaeda, the Taliban and Boko Haram, resurfaced online.
