National Security Adviser, retired Major General Babagana Monguno has ordered all security chiefs to stop reporting or taking directives from Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Abba Kyari, without express approval from the President.

Monguno claimed that Kyari had been acting outside the purview of his office by taking decision for the President without consulting and getting permission from him.

In a memo personally signed by Monguno and sent to security chiefs, Monguno stated that unprofessional practices from Kyari such as presiding over meetings with service chiefs and heads of security organisations as well as ambassadors and high commissioners to the exclusion of the NSA and/or supervising ministers have slowed down any meaningful gain.