Kwara Gov Announces rtd Gen, ex-DSS Director as Security Aides

Kwara Gov Announces rtd Gen, ex-DSS Director as Security
Aides
·       UITH Prof David Dunmade
replaces SA Health
·       Prof Sulaiman remains an
ally: Gov

Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has named retired
Brigadier-General Saliu Tunde Bello, one-time Colonel General Staff
for the Nigerian contingent in the Liberian war and former military
Governor, as his Special Adviser on Security.

The governor also appointed Aliyu Muyideen, an intelligence and
counterterrorism expert, as Senior Special Assistant on
Security.

The assemblage of a crack security team comes as the Governor
pushes harder for more investments in Kwara State, according to a
statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Rafiu
Ajakaye.

Brigadier-General Bello, who hails from Erin Ile in Oyun Local
Government area, was military Governor of Kebbi State between 1993
and 1996. He was a colonel general staff for the Nigerian
contingent in Liberia, and Chief Instructor at Military School in
Zaria between 1988 and 1992, among other roles.

Apart from other military courses in Pakistan and India, he
attended Nigerian Military School Zaria and Mons Officer Cadet
School Aldershot England and was commissioned into the Nigerian
army in 1971. He retired in 1999.

Aliyu Muyideen, who retired as principal staff officer
operations (DSS), has a master’s degree in Peace and Strategic
Studies from the University of Ilorin where he had earlier bagged a
Bachelor of Arts in History.

Muyideen, who comes from Ilorin, had trainings in advance
investigation, intelligence analysis, counterterrorism, advance
vetting, explosive ordinance, and detective basics, among
others.

The governor meanwhile has appointed Adekunle David Dunmade, a
professor of otolaryngology and current director of the University
of Ilorin Stem Cell Research Centre, as his Special Adviser on
Health Matters.

Dunmade, who hails from Ifelodun, replaces Prof. Wale Sulaiman
who is leaving his cabinet position to pursue his long-time
passion of maximising his contacts in the global health and
non-health sectors to deepen interaction with the Nigerian diaspora
and attract investments.

“While this is strictly a personal passion of Prof. Wale
Suleiman, our doors remain open to him and other great minds like
him in our commitments to rebuild a Kwara we would all be proud of.
Indeed, the government will continue to consult with Prof. Wale
Suleiman on relevant aspects of our policy direction as an
administration,” according to the statement.

“The Governor acknowledges the many positive contributions of
Prof. Wale Suleiman and the great strides he achieved together with
him and others in the development of our health sector, including
the campaign against the COVID-19 pandemic. The Governor thanks him
most sincerely for what the administration has achieved together
with him and wish him all the best in his future endeavour.”

Professor Dunmade, for his part, is a sought-after expert in the
ear, nose, and throat (ENT) medicine with over 48 publications in
local and international journals in his field of study.

He is a fellow of the KKR ENT Hospital and Research Institute,
Chennai, India; fellow of the West African College of Surgeons;
fellow of the Medical College of Otolaryngology; member of the
Nigerian Surgical Research Society; member of the Nigerian Society
of Neurological Sciences affiliated to World Federation of
Neurology; member of the Medical and Dental Consultants Association
of Nigeria, among others.

Rafiu Ajakaye
Chief Press Secretary to the Governor
August 19th 2020.