Kam Selem tsohon jami'in 'yan sandan Najeriya ne kuma babban sufeton' yan sandan Najeriya na biyu, mukamin daya rike daga shekarar 1966 zuwa shekarar 1975 a lokacin mulkin soja na janar Yakubu Gowon . A lokacin juyin mulkin Janairun shekarar 1966 wanda Manjo Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu ya jagoranta, Dikko Yusufu ya kasance Sufeto Janar na riko tun lokacin tun lokacin da IG Louis Edet ya tafi hutu a lokacin, kuma dole ne ya magance rikicin lokacin da Firayim Minista Abubakar Tafawa Balewa da sauran su. an samu kashe su. Ya zuwa shekarun 1970, sukar 'yan jarida game da cin hanci da rashawa a mulkin Gowon yana ta ƙaruwa. Selem yayi magana game da "kamfen da ake yiwa gwamnatin tarayya, tare da matsa mata lamba don kafa bincike kan yadda wasu ma'aikatan gwamnati ke gudanar da ayyukansu." Ya ce, "Gwamnati ba za ta yarda a buga mata hatimi ba wajen daukar matakai a duk wani abin da ya shafi maslahar jama'a."