Nigeria, Feb. 19 -- The State Security Service on Tuesday warned the public to desist from engaging its disgraced former director-general, Lawal Daura, on its behalf.

The secret police said it has been inundated with insinuations that Mr Daura still wields influence in its internal affairs, months after he was fired from office.

Mr Daura, appointed in 2015 by President Muhammadu Buhari, was fired on August 7, 2018, by then-Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, after ordering a controversial siege to the National Assembly in an alleged bid to force a leadership change.

Mr Daura was initially placed in a police detention, but was released a few days later amidst undisclosed circumstances.

There have been claims that he still occupies official...