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Nigeria’s Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau, has been caught on tape using an officer of Nigeria’s secret police, the State Security Service, to clean his shoes in public.

A video obtained by TIMES showed the minister, dressed in white gown, relaxing on a couch with his legs stretched out.

The SSS officer appeared from the sides, with a handkerchief in his right hand and a holstered service pistol protruding from his jacket.

He was shown stooping before the minister, using his left hand to lift Mr. Dambazau’s right leg, slightly above the floor to clean his loafers.

The minister bent his head to notice him, before looking away to focus on the event unfolding in a distance.

The minister was at the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps Academy in an Abuja suburb for an event in December.

He was seated between what seemed to be top officers of the NSCDC who merely took short glances at the SSS officer stooping before them.

Soon, the right leg shoe was glistering again and he steadily dropped it back to a dusty floor.

The minister adjusted himself in his couch and gently raised the left foot, appearing detached, while the SSS officer took it in his palms again and wiped off the dust.

Top Nigerian officials are known for misusing or abusing security details posted to them.

Apparently irritated by the way security officials are treated by the VIPs to which they are attached, the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, in May last year, warned police officers against running errands or doing domestic chores for their principals.

“Those of you who are posted to VIPs, on no should you carry their bags and on no should you act as domestic servants to them,” Mr. Arase told police inspectors and other rank and file on May 21, 2015, shortly after he was appointed Inspector General

“You are police officers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and they must respect you as such. Your uniform must be respected, anybody who wants to hire a domestic help should not use our policemen who are sent to protect them as domestic help.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMiMcQ9vE7A
“I have directed the commissioner of police in charge of the airports that if they find any of you carrying boxes (of VIPs) and rifles, and dragging them all over the place, they should arrest you and you will be punished.’’

It is not clear whether the SSS gave a similar instruction to its personnel.

Source http://www.timesng.com/news/196869-video-nigerias-interior-minister-dambazau-converts-sss-officer-to-shoe-shiner.html

@Op where is your source?

Buhari Government just deh start.

What is it again you call that grammar, what again -o?
Okay,

IMPUNITY.

You will have it in abundance now.

Just get ready for it.

masterpower:
@Op where is your source?

Source http://www.timesng.com/news/196869-video-nigerias-interior-minister-dambazau-converts-sss-officer-to-shoe-shiner.html

Linus spotted!!!

una no go kill person

This is so wrong. The officer is not on Dambazzau's payroll but Nigeria's. Under no circumstances must public officials do personal chores for their superiors.

The Problem Is That These Officers Posted To These VIPs Won't Stop Looking For 20, 20 Naira From Their OGAs.

This is preposterous and totally condemnable!!

The only thing left for some of these men to do is ask their "boys" to bang their wives for them.

Don't these boys have a mind of their own

na wao...in d presence of nscdc officers at dat...can't imagine how dat guy must've felt...dis shameful practices must stop...

omenka:
This is preposterous and totally condemnable!!

The only thing left for some of these men to do is ask their "boys" to bang their wives for them.

Don't these boys have a mind of their own

We all are humans. Sometimes, they do it on their own volition.


We should differentiate force labour and friendliness. It's just african

And if Dambazzau can't clean his own shoes then he can't wipe his ass.

Na wa oooo

I was present there when this happen

LadyExcellency:


We all are humans. Sometimes, they do it on their own volition.


We should differentiate force labour and friendliness. It's just african

Are you serious.. ..

Don't blame the DSS guy he is just ordinary Zoogerian.

look at how ridiculed our institutions are it is just heartbreaking watching this video. how would impunity stop if this are the type of leaders we have

The DSS was supposed to be our answer to Mossad right?

LadyExcellency:


But students carry bags and also help lecturers in our higher institutions on their own volition.

Me self go carry bag for madam minister depending on how she relates to me. When I do, it's part of human relationship and not a "Master" over "Servant" relationship.

It's just african

My dear let me tell you the truth, is only when one is poor that they think and act that way..

If you are feeling good with yourself and in your $12M Porch, men who dears you.
You can't compare a security personal with a student.

It's just a shame that this thing happen in this country someone like you will always find a way to OK it.

video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMiMcQ9vE7A

Change.

Change everywhere.

We love it!

Very bad.

sulmeza:
na wao...in d presence of nscdc officers at dat...can't imagine how dat guy must've felt...dis shameful practices must stop...

he felt honoured to shine a former army chief of staff boot. former military police. you civilians will not understand

LadyExcellency:


We all are humans. Sometimes, they do it on their own volition.


We should differentiate force labour and friendliness. It's just african

Don't be ridiculous....if the idiot cannot clean his shoes because of a lack of fitness....he is definitely not fit enough to manage a country the size of Nigeria.....thunder fire their arrogant heads....

What are the children of this DSS officer turn shoe shiner will be thinking of their dad? Gosh! This is disgraceful.

And is the shoe shine part of his job details?

What a country!

One is a Lt General the other is a bloody civilian.

If Dambazzau could treat VP Jonathan the way he did during Yaradua's death saga, who is an ordinary sss officer?.

Abeg next case!

Obama carrying his own bag.

This is shameful. The man is a power monger no wonder Buhari denied him the position of the Security Adviser and Defence Minister cos he would have done worse.

No honor

This man is a former COAS, Chief of Army Staff. By the contents of and conditions of service, he is entitled to a driver and an orderly who are serving military personnel. His residence is equally secured by serving military personnel . The choice not to be wear uniforms is dictated by the circumstances. No retired General of that status will leave his Military Orderly who has been with him for decades for an SSS officer, if there is anything like that. The person stooping is a serving soldier dutifully attending to his boss, a 3 star general. I challenge you to cross check these facts to avoid sensational reports. What is so extraordinary in a soldier officially attending to his boss, a general at that?