President Muhammadu Buhari's silence amidst monumental fraud and impunity at Upper Benue River Basin Development Authority, a federal agency in Yola, Adamawa State, is horrifying, a group has said.
The National Youth Council of Nigeria, on Wednesday in Yola, the Adamawa state capital, decried President Buhari's refusal to effect the removal of the former Managing Director of the agency, Abubakar Mu'azu, whose tenure ended on June 6, 2020. NYCN had argued that even if Mu'azu were to be reappointed, it was ethically and morally wrong for the president to allow him to illegally discharge the functions of the office of MD, without officially reappointing him.The group also said it believed that the next highest-ranking officer, due to succeed Mu'azu, was being blocked because of his Christian faith.
A spokesperson for NYCN, Shehu Kamile, said they were issuing a 7-day ultimatum for the president to do the needful and remove Mu'azu to face prosecution, failure of which would lead to protests.A whistleblower, Bashiru Ahmed, had raised the alarm, urging anti-graft agencies to investigate corruption allegations against Mu'azu, running into billions of naira.
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