has vowed to appeal against a court judgment ordering it to reinstate its two top directors who were sacked last year.
PREMIUM TIMES had reported how the NFIU placed the two officials on indefinite suspension in August 2020The agency took the disciplinary actions against the officials based on series of allegations of misconduct, insubordination and dereliction of duties levelled against them. The NFIU, in its statement vowing to appeal against the judgement, maintained that Mr Mustapha and Ms Salisu were not sacked for launching investigations against Mr Abubakar , a top member of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party , and Mr Tinubu, national leader of the governing All Progressives Congress .
“You cannot walk up to a bank and block over 360 bank accounts of ordinary Nigerians without a reason or any court order and expect things to augur well, even when the innocent depositors marched to the National Assembly to complain of being innocently targeted,” the statement added.
This appears to be responding to criticism by some that the action taken against Mr Mustapha and Ms Salisu was done partly to protect the perceived relationship between Mr Abubakar and the executive director of NFIU, Moddibo Hamman-Tukur, both of whom hail from Adamawa State.PRRMIUM TiMES had reported how Mr Mustapha and Ms Salisu sued the agency at the National Industrial Court in Abuja, praying for an order setting aside their dismissal from service on December 10, 2021.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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