The Department of State Services (DSS) has expressed its desire to recruit highly intelligent graduates, emphasizing that effective crime-fighting requires sharp minds.
Oluwatosin Ajayi, the DSS Director, made this statement while delivering a lecture at the University of Ilorin, Kwara State, on Wednesday.
In his lecture titled ‘The Roles of the DSS in Security, Peacekeeping, and National Integration,’ Ajayi called for the enhancement of institutions like intelligence agencies, a reevaluation of roles, and a reconsideration of recruitment and staffing processes.
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Represented by DSS Deputy Director Patrick Ikenweiwe, he shared that if it were up to him, the country’s top graduates would be compelled to join the DSS to serve the nation and address security challenges.
“Like I know in Israel, they have one examination that students take to get admission into the university. The moment you score above 70 marks, you have no option but to be sent to the university there.
“Tell me how would a ‘Dundee’ (dullard) be able to keep the security of a criminal gang that is constituted of first-class people? You know, it takes intellect to track criminality.
“So, if I have my way in this country, and we keep praying that we do the right thing, the academia should be able to supply us, sincerely, the details of students who have excelled in their various fields of study so that they would be forced to serve this great nation,” he said.
He also identified threats to national security, including sabotage, subversion, and espionage, among others.
He said, “In the last two decades, however, terrorism and insurgency have threatened internal security like never before in the nation’s history. Other threats of national security dimension extend to separatist agitations, militancy, oil bunkering, farmer-herder clashes, ethno-religious hostilities, economic and cyber crimes, political violence and sundry violent crimes, such as armed robbery and kidnapping.”
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