Of the country’s 21 military, paramilitary and other allied security agencies, only five have persons from the North-central, South-east and South-south as their Heads.
They are the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), the Federal Fire Service, the Defence Intelligence Agency, the Police Service Commission, and the Nigerian Navy.
Here are the heads and the regions they come from
South-east 1
Emmanuel Ogalla, Chief of Naval Staff
North-central region 2
Ahmed Audi, Controller General of the NSCDC
Jaji Abdulganiyu, Controller General of the Fire Service.
The North-west and the Southwest got the lion’s share of the heads of the 21 agencies.
North-west 7
Chief of Defence Staff, Christopher Musa
Chief of Air Staff, Hassan Abubakar
Controller General of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Haliru Nababa
Director General of the State Security Service, Yusuf Bichi
Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ahmed Abubakar
Board Secretary of the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board, Ja’afaru Ahmed
Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Ahmed Habib.
Southwest 5
Chief of Army Staff, Taoreed Lagbaja
Acting Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun
Acting Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Adepoju Wura-Ola
Acting Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Bashir Adeniyi
Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, Bolaji Owasanoye.
