after his retirement. Damcida was an ace in his field of work and that earned him and a few of his fellow Permanent Secretaries a reward for good service, exemplary leadership and commitments to nation building. Damcida, remained a Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Trade from 1966, up until 1971, when he was transferred to the Federal Ministry of Defense as Permanent Secretary, until 1976 when he was retired along with his other colleagues, after a change of Military Government that year. In 1968 as the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Trade he was actively involved in the establishment and funding of NICON, a national insurance company. After the end of the civil war, a title that could be considered both descriptive and insulting was linked to a group of administrators. An editor of the Daily Times, Babatunde Jose tagged a group of administrators which included Damcida and others such as Yusuf Gobir, Ahmed Joda, Phillip Asiodu and Allison Ayide as 'super Permanent Secretaries'. Jose has criticized a move by the Yakubu Gowon led government to increase the salaries of some permanent secretaries whose performance impressed Gowon during a political crisis between 1966 and 1967 and the civil war between 1967 and 1970. Jose critiqued the increase as excessive after the country had just gone through a civil war and coined the term super permanent secretary for the beneficiaries of the salary increase. In 1971, he was the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defense and became friends with officers such as Murtala Mohammed and Olusegun Obasanjo, two future leaders that later embarked on mass retrenchment that included the retirement of Damcida. In the 1970s, Nigeria began to implement a construction plan to build military barracks across the country to accommodate personnel expansion during the civil war. However, there was a gap in domestic cement production and domestic consumption because two of the nation's cement plants were affected by the war. The defense ministry with Damcida as secretary approved a plan to import cement up to 2.9 million tonnes a year, contracts were awarded in tranches of 240,000 tonnes per contractor. Sixty nine tranches were awarded, in excess of need but done to ensure delivery of cement on time. The importation of the product resulted in the congestion of the Lagos port and government incurring payment of demurrage charges as a stipulated in the contract signed. This event caught