Also, the security source revealed that two SSS operatives have been arrested and detained over the embarrassing leak of personnel records.
The operative, who shuttles between Abuja and rest of the region, said the leaking of the identity of members of the service, their main contacts, their spouses and next of kin, has made them easy and exposed targets.
He said for their restricted contacts information to have gone public is affecting their psychology and that their families.
“This is a serious problem for personnel like me in service; some of us are dwelling in areas prone to insurgency carrying out intelligence duties and those we are trailing have some of our names only,” he said yesterday.
He added: “Now it has become public issue, our core data are out in the public, our date of birth, permanent residential addresses, email addresses, place of origin, date of joining the service and phone numbers of our wives and children. Some of us, our wives are working in both public and private, our children are schooling across the North and with these trends. It has brought all us close to those trailing to finish us, and so our lives are really in danger. Only our passports are missing, that are core contacts have been made public, it is clear we are in danger because it is confused situation.”
On the implications for national security, he said, “We are the actors behind the mask of national security, and now our morale is down and confused. How do we now operate with confidence of ensuring national security? How do we trail terrorists, who already have our information at their finger tip? Both serving and retired personnel will now go underground for our survival first, and how do we ensure national security?
This is clearly serious national security sabotage, and shows there is more than meets the eye.”
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