Fresh insight has emerged as to why former managing director of Nigerian Ports Authority, Hadiza Bala Usman, was suspended from her plum office.
LEADERSHIP Weekend gathered reliably that unhealthy scheming and power play within the seat of power arising from muscle flexing between Hadiza and the minister of transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, were part of the reasons why the NPA boss was axed. “Clearly, by not getting the minister’s recommendation, the purported tenure extension granted her was illegally done and, hence, is a breach of the NPA Act,” our source who did not want his name in print hinted.
Also confirming the development, another presidency source said the president directed her to make a formal complaint, which she did. LEADERSHIP Weekend further gathered that after receiving Amaechi’s memo and seeing the enormity of the issues raised by the minister, he promptly ordered Hadiza’s suspension and a probe to ascertain the veracity or otherwise of all the allegations raised against her.
The NPA had gone into different Joint Venture contracts with some of them expected to expire this year. The minister, in the letter personally signed by him and addressed to President Buhari, called for an audit of the NPA account for the period stated above to ascertain the true financial position of port revenue and the outstanding unremitted balance.
However, in her response to the chief of staff to the president, Ibrahim Gambari, dated 5th May, 2021, a copy of which was made available to LEADERSHIP Weekend, the suspended managing director, in the letter with reference number MD/17/MF/Vol/XX/541, said the figures so provided by the Budget Office of the Federation as the operating surplus for the respective years on which basis they arrived at the shortfall were derived from submission of budgetary provision, and not the actual amounts...
The NPA MD further stated in the letter to the president’s chief of staff that the Fiscal Responsibility Commission that accessible operating surplus of the Authority stands at N51.09 billion and N42.51 billion for 2017 and 2018 respectively and not N133.084 billion and N88.79 billion in the years under review.
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EFCC and ICPC suppose to investigate the in charge of survivalfund 2021,bcoz they want divert the fun
Allah yajikinta ya mata rahama
Hoping that it happens rightly Let her go if she can't save the position.
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