{"id":62297,"date":"2018-05-21T18:48:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T17:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=62297"},"modified":"2018-05-21T18:48:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T17:48:18","slug":"nia-crisis-macabre-dance-of-vengeful-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/nia-crisis-macabre-dance-of-vengeful-brothers\/","title":{"rendered":"NIA Crisis: Macabre Dance of Vengeful Brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"
By: Usman Habu Biu<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
The questions people have continued to ask back home in Biu is, what may<\/div>\n
have necessitated what was perceived as a betrayal of former Acting<\/div>\n
Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, NIA, Ambassador<\/div>\n
Muhammed Dauda by his very close allies of more than 50 years.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It was rather curious and intriguing to many people that the duo of<\/div>\n
Mustapha Shehu, a publisher and media consultant from Biu in Borno State<\/div>\n
and Mustapha Betara Aliyu, a retired Deputy Director of the NIA, also from<\/div>\n
Biu, could collude to fight their own brother, Ambassador Muhammed Dauda,<\/div>\n
also from Biu.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Those who know the three gentlemen are still piqued at what could have gone<\/div>\n
wrong to the hitherto cozy relationship between the them. I know as a<\/div>\n
matter of fact that MB Aliyu and Muhammed Dauda and Mustapha Shehu were<\/div>\n
pals from the cradle, and are not only contemporaries but were always<\/div>\n
together when Muhammed Dauda was still the Acting Director General.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
I understand that, while Mustapha Shehu was seeking to be engaged as a<\/div>\n
media consultant, M B Aliyu wanted his premature retirement from the NIA<\/div>\n
reviewed, so that he could enjoy the benefits of a director, having been<\/div>\n
retired as a Deputy Director, owing to his failure to pass promotion exams<\/div>\n
to the rank of a director three times in a row.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It is common knowledge in the service that MB Aliyu has petitioned<\/div>\n
virtually every National Security Adviser from the time of General Aliyu<\/div>\n
Gusau and has tried to cajole every Director General since that time,<\/div>\n
including Muhammed Dauda, to have his matter reviewed. Perhaps he had hoped<\/div>\n
that, Dauda, being his own kinsman will do that for him, but the Acting DG<\/div>\n
declined, insisting it was a bad case.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
I must confess that I have a fair knowledge of what may have transpired as<\/div>\n
both Mustpha Shehu and Mustapha Betara Aliyu used to be my close allies<\/div>\n
too, until I found out that I was actually ridding on the back of two<\/div>\n
tigers. Dauda may have also came to the same realization, and refused to<\/div>\n
appoint MB Aliyu as his SA, contrary to the expectations of many of us who<\/div>\n
were regulars around him.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Dauda\u2019s refusal to appoint MB Aliyu as an SA, coupled with the rapid<\/div>\n
progress Dauda made even as MB Aliyu\u2019s junior: becoming a Director, an<\/div>\n
Ambassador and subsequently the Acting Dg of the NIA, at a time MB Aliyu<\/div>\n
could not transcend the position of a Deputy Director, are enough motives<\/div>\n
to make MB Aliyu plot to see Dauda\u2019s back at the NIA.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
On the other hand, his refusal to hire Mustapha Shehu as Mustapha Shehu\u2019s<\/div>\n
request to be his media strategist could have given Shehu enough reason to<\/div>\n
gang up against him with others, including MB Aliyu. But beyond the likely<\/div>\n
motives for the duo to move against Dauda, is the likely material benefits<\/div>\n
they they were said to have derived from their deals with new NIA boss.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
If the reports I received to the effect that Shehu and Aliyu have accepted<\/div>\n
to manipulate information about Ambassador Dauda\u2019spast which will tend to<\/div>\n
further portray Muhammed Dauda in bad light, is anything to go by, it will<\/div>\n
be safe to surmise that the duo have a longer agenda than meet the eyes.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Seemingly driven by envy and vendetta against Dauda, one cannot find any<\/div>\n
justification for the animousity against Dauda, given that he has not<\/div>\n
committed any offence, except for putting in his best and excelling. The<\/div>\n
actions of Mustapha Shehu and MB Aliyu which is common knowledge amongst<\/div>\n
our people are sad, repugnant and alien to our culture, background and<\/div>\n
religion in Biu.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
I would have dismissed the assertion that Ambassador Dauda is also being<\/div>\n
fought by his own brothers as a mere hoax but for the confirmation from an<\/div>\n
insider in the NIA to the effect that our own brothers are at the center of<\/div>\n
a sinister campaign to further embattle Muhammed Dauda.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
The two, I am made to understand are working in collaboration with an<\/div>\n
internal machinery set up by Dauda\u2019s successor, with the brief to clone and<\/div>\n
distort Dauda\u2019s history, records and background, so as to further rubbish<\/div>\n
him. This I understand is a ploy to compel him withdraw the suit in court<\/div>\n
challenging his purported dismissal: an issue that has become worrisome to<\/div>\n
the new NIA boss.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Besides the threats to his life, Dauda is also being faced with this new<\/div>\n
challenge from his own brothers, both of whom seem to have struck a deal<\/div>\n
with the new NIA helmsman, where in Mustapha Shehu\u2019s moribund news magazine<\/div>\n
will enjoy a lifeline, while Aliyu\u2019s checkered career history will be<\/div>\n
reviewed to give him a soft landing.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Suffice it to say that, the close affinity between Mustapha Shehuand MB<\/div>\n
Aliyu stems from their commonality of attitudes and characters. For Shehu,<\/div>\n
since his sojourn outside the shores of Nigeria for the Technical Aid Corp,<\/div>\n
which gave him the opportunity to also pursue other endeavors, he has<\/div>\n
technically kept all his friends, except M B Aliyu, at bay. In the same<\/div>\n
vein, MB Aliyu, since his career at the National Intelligence Agency, NIA<\/div>\n
became wobbly and eventually ended rather unceremoniously, he has been<\/div>\n
leading a life of exclusivity, with friends and even relations. But there<\/div>\n
seems a good understanding between the two the basis of which no one knows.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Mustapha Aliyu seems too desperate in his attempt to remove the stigma of<\/div>\n
serial failure, having failed all his promotion exams before he was kicked<\/div>\n
out of the NIA, and can do anything for any DG who may agree to review his<\/div>\n
retirement as Deputy Director. It is understandable how he became an easy<\/div>\n
tool to use against Ambassador Dauda, who had refused to play ball. Fresh<\/div>\n
facts emerging indicate that in his desperation to force the DG to do his<\/div>\n
bidding ,MB Aliyu has now introduced an element of subtle blackmail against<\/div>\n
the DG. He told us that ,the DG knows that,as Assistant Director Personnel<\/div>\n
under TALBAN KATSINA, Amb. ZY Ibrahim ,he was the one,who on the<\/div>\n
instruction of the TALBA single handedly invited,interviewed and processed<\/div>\n
the new DG when he transferred his service from katsina state.MB Aliyu told<\/div>\n
us that although TALBA was very happy with him for taking that \u201cBOLD\u201d<\/div>\n
action of recommending the placement of RUFAI on GL 14 from his GL 12 level<\/div>\n
in the katsina state service.This action Aliyu admitted clearly violates<\/div>\n
federal civil service Rules which down grade STATE civil Servants one step<\/div>\n
down upon transfer to federal civil service ,this action along with his<\/div>\n
recommendations to TALBA for waiver of Rufai\u2019s vetting to cover CHAD<\/div>\n
Republic where he spent most of childhood,and asked the vetting officer<\/div>\n
LATE Mr Agim to only confine his vetting to KATSINA.ALIYU confided in me<\/div>\n
that,these action ,although it endeared him to TALBA,made him the most<\/div>\n
hated head of personnel ever at the agency till date.\u201dHe now strongly<\/div>\n
believe it is time for payback\u201d<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
For Mustapha Shehu, certain traits in his conducts gave him away as one who<\/div>\n
could do anything for a price. I recall he sold an idea of a crooked<\/div>\n
partnership between him and me to use Major Hamza Al-Mustapha as a conduit<\/div>\n
to obtain money from former President Goodluck Jonathan, using the<\/div>\n
perceived closeness of Al-Mustapha to the former President.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He offered his medium as a tool we can use to blackmail Mustapha if he<\/div>\n
fails to play ball. The offer was very tempting and I nearly fell for it,<\/div>\n
given the general clamor then for political jobbers to cajole office<\/div>\n
seekers into easily parting with money. But knowing his antecedents I<\/div>\n
approached the matter with caution, and had to decline when I realized it<\/div>\n
had some elements of blackmail and could land me in trouble.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Shortly after that encounter, he confided in me that he has been offered a<\/div>\n
N10 million deal to reconcile a former commissioner and fellow publisher<\/div>\n
who has been very critical of a particular State Government with the<\/div>\n
Governor. I do not know if he succeeded but I later saw some advertorials<\/div>\n
from that same State Governor in his magazine, which were ostensibly part<\/div>\n
of the deal.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
After carefully analyzing what could possibly be their common grouse<\/div>\n
against Muhammed Dauda, I had the strong feeling that Dauda\u2019s sins may be<\/div>\n
his refusal to play the nepotism card by drawing Mustapha Shehu and MB<\/div>\n
Aliyu into the system. Additionally, they were easy cannons in the hands of<\/div>\n
the cabal, which appears ready to pay anything in order to sweep the NIA<\/div>\n
issue under the carpet.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Now the difference seemed clear, as my friend who, few weeks ago, was<\/div>\n
complaining about how to get fertilizer for his farm, has just embarked on<\/div>\n
a globetrotting tour that will take him to four countries.I won\u2019t mind such<\/div>\n
instant high paying jobs ooh\u2026<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Habu is a long standing ally of the parties and writes from Abuja Nigeria<\/div>\n
—<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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