President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Herman Hembe, a sacked lawmaker, as the board chairman of the Michael Imoudo National Institute for Labour Studies (MINLS).

The Benue lawmaker was one of the 209 chairmen appointed to fill board positions.

Hembe was on June 23 sacked by the Supreme Court of Nigeria as led by Walter Onnoghen, the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN).

He was removed on the basis that he did not win the All Progressives Congress (APC) ticket to represent Vandeikya/Konshisha federal constituency at the national assembly.

The five-man panel of judges led by Onnoghen had declared Dorathy Mato as the winner of the primary election of the APC.

Hembe was ordered to return all salaries and benefits collected while in office within 90 days and pay N700,000 to Mato, while APC was also mandated to pay Mato and the court N300,000 each.

In an affidavit seen by TheCable, Hembe pleaded with the apex court to set aside the order to repay all the salaries he received in office, on the grounds that he had spent all the monies and did not save.

“I have tried very hard to raise a loan to enable me comply with the above order of the honourable court, but have not yet succeeded,” read the affidavit.

HEMBE’S CONTROVERSIAL TRACK RECORD



Hembe became one of the youngest federal lawmakers in Nigeria in 2007, when he was elected — at 31 — to represent his constituency at the green chamber. At the time, he was with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

By 2011, he was re-elected and later selected as the chairman of house committee on capital market and other financial institutions.

As the chairman, he led a probe of the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), and in the course of the probe, Arunma Oteh, director-general of the commission, accused Hembe of soliciting a bribe of N40 million from SEC.

He denied the allegation, saying it was Oteh who offered him N30 million bribe. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) charged him to court but could not secure a conviction.

By February 2016, now an APC lawmaker, Hembe was appointed to head a committee of the house to probe the $18 billion centenary city project.

Anyim Pius Anyim, secretary to the government of the federation (SGF) in charge of the project under the Goodluck Jonathan administration, also accused Hembe of asking for a bribe.

Again, Hembe denied the allegations.

In 2017, after 10 years as a federal lawmaker, Hembe was sacked by the supreme court, as a result of irregularities in the election that got him to claim the seat as the APC candidate.

‘PRODUCT OF IMPUNITY’
Hembe approached the supreme court for redress, asking the apex court to reverse itself on the payment of two-year salary.

The CJN said: “If somebody has been in the House where he is not supposed to be and has reaped the benefits which it should not be, you mean we should close our eyes to this product of impunity?

“No, we cannot go back to that because the imposter has no right to it. Whatever he collected should be refunded. This court is sending a message to everybody so that right from the primaries, the right thing should be done.”

Hembe will, with immediate effect lead the MINILS board, under the ministry of labour and employment.

Michael Imoudu National Institute for Labour Studies (MINILS) was established vide Act Cap 261 of the Law of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1990 as the only tripartite institution in the West African sub-region responsible for providing workers’ education.



https://www.thecable.ng/buhari-picks-hembe-sacked-lawmaker-as-board-chair-institute-for-labour-studies

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Buhari was just mad that the stealing going on wasn’t going to his pocket..

He’s changing all that by appointing thieves and dead people to loot for him.

People will still shout sai baba

SMH...

Typing.....

Buhari is a Typical failure

Nothing Buhari can do to surprise me again..

Am sure shekau and lord luggard will get appointments soon

And Garba Shehu defended the ghosts in the list based on the fact that they didn't tamper with the list submitted since 2015. Mtchew

There's nothing I fear more than people who still have faith in this government.

This govt is seriously becoming an embracement to hardcore zombies. If Vegetable has any dignity in him, he just tender his resignation. This govt is the worst since Lucifer was thrown out of heaven.

Andrew would certainly be the happiest man alive right now.

sholatech:
And Garba Shehu defended the ghosts in the list based on the fact that they didn't tamper with the list submitted since 2015. Mtchew

Abi how come Hembe’s name is now on the list when he was a lawmaker as at 2015. Garba Shehu been decieving people since 2015. He must have been added on the list after he’s sack by The Apex court which means Garba Shehu lied.

omenkaLives:
Andrew would certainly be the happiest man alive right now.

who Ben Andrew o

This man has a track record of bribery, he is deceitful, he was sacked by the supreme court as recent as june, so how is it possible that Buhari and his cohorts didnt know all this, or they just choose to overlook because he is in apc.

Smh

This man wey Madam Oteh wash that year?

na so so appointment. the ones way dem appoint how far? See Fashola sef. nobody no weda e die or e day live. these men are croooks all of them. they no day respect their age. them day thief like small pikin. no shame! people granddads. no feelings no conscience. they just want only their own pockets and their family. Buhari's mentality is still backforward to 1983. He does not erason like a homo sapien. See many governors as they just just sit down doing nothing but stealing.

God no be man sha. one by one we go day count them. to even see how their children useless, with all the money, none fit carry first class. none fit win grammy, none fit befriend Beyonce or Trump pikin. outside here, they are just ordinary as ordinary can be. I trust american police, they are pulled over like rabbits and their big bellies searched like old thieves.

dirty old men.

Seems the president don't wait a sharper mind in his government. I really can't vote for this man ooooo..... by the way I didn't even voted for him.

After reading I only understand that Buhari is behind all the evil that were happening in the last administration. appointing those that worked for him into his government, even those that had broken the law of the land.

If social media can decide who wins in an election, buhari and co won't near aso rock after 2019.

Twenty first century thinking isn't in their brains

Do you think there should be retirement age for politicians

Nawa o, they will soon tell us the list was hacked

President Buhari should also call back the suspended staff of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike, how can 800+ staff and their dependents go starving, please let him be a voice to these voiceless.

Is it not the same Buhari that appointed a dead person and a convicted Fraudulent official?

politics = family business



sai baba

What?.

Well what do you expect from an illierate who is only fortunate to be voted into Aso rock?
Nothing this dullard does surprises me anymore..
A man who wasnt even sure of his own age
A man whose WAEC certificate became a bone of contention during the election preparations
A man who wrecked the economy when he was a Military president and played the blame game then which he is still doing again now since 2015 he was sworn into power
And now, the first Nigerian President in history to Appoint dead and corrupt men into board members
Here comes the change...

Sarrki, come and defend your Popsy again ooo and lick/suck his balls as usual...

Ok

Nice one

Lol.... At least he will be able to repay the amount the CJN asked him to pay back Funny government

TheUbermensch:
There's nothing I fear more than people who still have faith in this government.

All of those you see here on NL ARE under a spell...that is why they are ZOMBIES. They don't a mind of thier own.

It is.. Micheal Imodu, in Ilorin shey... If am right

Not Imuodo or wathever is up there..