'My Oga At the Top' Commander Redeployed

About three weeks after his gaffe on a television programme brought him and his organisation to ridicule, Mr. Shema Obafaiye, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Lagos Commandant, from whose comment the popular joke, 'My Oga At the Top' was coined, has been redeployed from his post.
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Obafaye has been replaced by Mr. Adesuyi Clement from the Oyo State Command.
Obafaye became an object of nationwide snide remarks after he committed a gaffe when he featured as a guest on a breakfast show on a Lagos-based private television, Channels Television, a development that embarrassed the NSCDC authorities.
The hint of Obafaye's removal was given, weekend, when the Commandant General of the NSCDC, Dr. Olu Abolurin, while visiting Lagos over the recent killing of two of his men, introduced Clement as the new commandant of the NSCDC in Lagos to journalists.
Although Abolurin did not give reasons for Obafaye's replacement, many readily connected the action to his embarrassing outing on the television programme.
The NSCDC, in the days following Obafaye's gaffe, had denied that it had taken any disciplinary action against him, though reports said he had been suspended.
Obafaye's ordeal began March 12 when he appeared as a guest on the television's flagship morning programme, Sunrise Daily.
During the programme, one of the presenters of Sunrise Daily had asked the commandant for the domain name of the NSCDC's website. There had been reports of a recruitment scam that had to do with some people setting up a fake website of the para-military organisation to con job seekers.
But to the presenters' surprise, Obafaye, appearing confident and exultant, said he could not give the domain name of the website now, and it would turn out, in his words, "My Oga at the top" (his boss) would give a different domain name later.
The presenters prodded the officer further, explaining that they merely wanted the organisation's functional website, so that the public could be wary of falling into the hands of fraudsters, who had set up the fake website.
Obafaye, behaving as though he now understood the question clearly, shocked his interviewers, and viewers alike, even further when he gave the NSCDC's domain name as "ww.nscdc." He paused a few seconds and added, "that's all" without including the ".com" or ".org" or ".ng" url-ending that should have completed the website address.
Source - allafrica.com