Ex-SSS Spokesperson, Marilyn Ogar, Loses Reinstatement Battle

Legal attempt by a former spokesperson of the State Security Service, (SSS) also known as the Department of State Security, Mrs. Marilyn Ogar, to be reinstated into the Service came to naught on Monday has lost the battle.

Ogar was compulsorily retired from office in September 2015 alongside 44 others.

She had challenged the action at the National Industrial Court Abuja.

Delivering judgment in the suit on Monday, Justice Olufunke Anuwe held that the originating summons filed by Marilyn Ogar was invalid and dead because it was filed two years and seven months after President Muhammadu Buhari approved her compulsory retirement from office.

Justice Anuwe further held that the original summons failed to disclose any reasonable cause of action neither was it served on the Attorney General of the Federation, the DSS and the agency’s Director General who are the defendants in the case.

The former DSS spokesperson asked the court to nullify her retirement and reinstate her with all her ranks, salaries and benefits to the employment of the FG.

She further asked the court to set aside her purported demotion from assistant director to chief security intelligence officer.