A Department of State Services officer attached to the Plateau State Command has been dismissed after he raised concerns that official security intelligence reports were not reaching Governor Caleb Mutfwang.
Documents and accounts obtained by SaharaReporters show the officer was queried in February 2026 for photographing sealed correspondence at the Government House in Jos. He said he took the photographs after discovering that several DSS reports previously delivered there remained undelivered and had not been passed to the governor.
One of the reports, dated January 30, 2026, and addressed to the governor at the Government House, Little Rayfield, Jos, warned of the presence of an armed militia in Qua’an Pan Local Government Area. It assessed that the group’s presence posed a threat of imminent attack on the area and surrounding communities. The report said security agencies were intensifying patrols and urged residents to provide timely information.
According to sources familiar with the matter, the officer visited the Government House on February 1, 2026, to deliver official correspondence. An officer there informed him that earlier DSS mails were still in his custody and had not reached the governor. The Government House officer allegedly produced old mails from a drawer. The DSS personnel photographed some of the documents, stating in his later response that the photographs were intended solely as evidence for his superiors.
A query dated February 17, 2026, accused him of picking up five sealed mails, opening them and photographing their contents with a personal phone without authorisation. It described the action as unbecoming of a member of the Service and directed him to explain within 48 hours why disciplinary action should not be taken.
In his response the following day, the officer rejected any suggestion of an ulterior motive. He said he acted after being shown that DSS correspondence was not reaching the governor and that he reported the matter to a senior officer in the operations department, who promised to escalate it to the State Director. Sources said he later sent a WhatsApp message directly to the command director with a photograph of one of the reports. The director reportedly acknowledged the complaint.
Rather than focusing on the alleged non-delivery of intelligence, sources said the officer became the subject of disciplinary proceedings. He was transferred to DSS national headquarters in Abuja and later dismissed. The documents obtained do not, by themselves, establish the precise reason for the dismissal or conclusively link it to his complaint about the reports.
Sources alleged that the chief detail to the governor was responsible for the failure of the reports to reach him, claiming the official kept some correspondence in his car and room. They further alleged that the chief detail had previously been cautioned over the handling of reports and had on occasions withheld allowances meant for DSS personnel under him. One source claimed the chief detail had once been found drunk and ordered removed by the governor.
SaharaReporters could not independently verify these allegations against the chief detail or establish any link to the officer’s dismissal.
When contacted, the governor’s spokesperson, Gyang Bere, declined to comment on DSS-related matters, saying he was not the DSS spokesperson.
The January 30 report is significant against the background of insecurity in Qua’an Pan. In January 2026, gunmen attacked Bong village in Doemak District of the same local government area, killing at least seven people and injuring others.
The episode has raised questions about the handling of security intelligence intended for the governor, who is often described as the chief security officer of the state.
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