According to the deputy director, first-class graduates should be required to join DSS.

 

Patrick Ikenweiwe, the deputy director of DSS, believes that first-class graduates from Nigerian universities should be required to join the secret agency.

 

Ikenweiwe made this suggestion while speaking at the 2025 distinguished personality lecture held by the Centre for Peace and Strategic Studies at the University of Ilorin in Kwara state on February 13th.

 

Ikenweiwe, who represented Adeola Ajayi, DSS director-general, said that individuals with low academic performance should not be entrusted with the responsibility of overseeing the country's security apparatus. He stated that academic institutions should provide the secret service with their top graduates to enhance the security framework.

“If I have my way the best of the lot from every academic institution must be forced to serve in the secret service; that is how it is in the so-called developed nations.

Like I know, in Israel, there is one examination that students take to into the university. The moment you score above 70 marks, you have no option but to be sent to the university

Tell me, how would a dullard be able to keep security in a criminal gang that is constituted of first-class people. You know, you need intellect to track criminality.

So, if I have my way in this country, and we keep praying that we do the right thing. The academia should be able to supply us, sincerely, the details of students who have excelled in their various fields of study so that they would be forced to serve this great nation”