A civil servant in Bauchi State who made a facebook post questioning the financial integrity of the State Governor has been dismissed.

Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State ordered the dismissal of Abbas Faggo over a facebook comment in which he accused the governor of corruption.

A letter terminating Mr. Faggo’s appointment and signed by one Ibrahim Shehu for the Head of Service of the State, said his appointment was terminated “because his services are no longer needed”.

The termination of the appointment took effect from October 10 this year when he was first suspended.

Mr. Faggo’s troubles started when he accused the governor of monumental fraud and corruption, questioning the source of funding of the governor’s son’s wedding which took place recently.

Mr. Faggo had been arraigned by the Police before the Chief Magistrate of the state for the same offence.

However, the Chief Magistrate, Adamu Madaki, on Friday November 16, struck out the case against Mr. Faggo because “it was not properly filed.”

Below is the content of Mr. Faggo’s dismissal letter:

TERMINATION OF APPOINTMENT

I am directed to refer to the civil service commission’s letter No.

CSC/PRO/S/001/T.V dated 1st November 2012 to convey the commission’s

approval of your suspension and termination of appointment from Bauchi State

Service with effect from 10th October, 2012 as your service is no longer

required, please.

Signed

ibrahim shehu

For: Head of Service.

Below is the controversial Facebook post which angered the governor, and for which Mr. Faggo was arrested, detained and arraigned in court for allegedly defaming the Mr. Yuguda’s character.

“Those of us resident in Abuja, are witnessing yet another Bauchi wedding, this time we understand is the Governor’s son that is hooking the one-time PDP’s Chairmanship aspirant’s daughter. Inside sources said, already:

“Top officials of the Min. for Local Govt, along with the ALGON Bauchi State chapter are asking the 20 LGA’s to sign out N2m each as donation for the wedding next Saturday of the Gov’s son. They awarded contract for calendars and note pads to an Abuja printing press. Contract for coffee mugs, Wall clocks, bags, badges etc. was given to a Lagos based lady. They will all carry the pictures of the groom and the bride. An SUV Jeep was also suggested as a wedding present to Ango. Finally the 20 LGA chairmen will all send their wives to Abj where the jamboree is taking place because Yuguda is now Abuja based.

“The story is all over town too, that in April $80,000 was sent to the ango on his graduation by the SSG, on the orders of the Gov. This is as a result of request by the groom to buy a limited edition M/Benz Series.

“In Nov, 2009, when the Gov latest wife, also acquired thru Bauchi funds, was having her first child in Washington DC the sum of £150,000 was sent to the SSG by the then Accountant General for onward transmission to Yuguda. One wonders, why all this, as he has 21 kids from 3 wives earlier and all of them born in Nigeria. The thinking is that he is using Bauchi state money for the purchase of citizenship thru birth, for his latest 2 kids in the USA. Already a house has since been purchased for Yuguda in Maryland through a once upon a time VOA staff, aide of his.

“These things are happening in a state where staff salaries are becoming very difficult to pay and inevitable retrenchment is looming day in day out. God save Bauchi State.”

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Where are the small boys who always say first to comment, you guys should come as that is the only thing you guys know how to do best

Thats 9ja 4 u, God save Nigeria and the blackman from greed.

Not to mention that stupi.d airport they are building.

why am i not suprised

See oil money in action!!!

d truth is always bitter, may God deliver us..

browncool: Where are the small boys who always say first to comment, you guys should come as that is the only thing you guys know how to do best

How different are you from them?

Fat PIG
Smh!!!

Better 2 die for justice than 2 live in injustice,a brave civil servant you are,if all can emulate this act,corruption would be stories 2 tell in dis country.

the rich keeps getting richer and the poor still gets poorer, power is nothing without control!

100% for whistleblowing
0% for wisdom

The civil servant is a BIG fool! With these kind of information, why put it on Facebook? And if he was going to put it on a social network, then do it anonymously

Why didn’t he pass on the relevant information to the appropriate authorities (EFCC) in Nigeria? Even then, do it anonymously? The next thing we will hear is of his death in suspicious circumstances.

He deserves to be sacked.

To me, he is the biggest fool on the planet.

I SMELL A BLOODY AND DEADLY REVOLUTION IN THE AIR.

3 months time Nigeria will have lots of Public office holders going into hiding, resigning and being killed.

It is innevitable as that is the ONlY Solution to a better Nigeria.

and they think it would be well with the marriage and the child. people are daily heaping curses and insults upon themselves and they don't even know it. The funny thing is that most people including the fired man may do the same thing or even worse if they were in his shoes because the average Nigerian IQ is 69 , for those in the North it is just a little above 20.

acidtalk: I SMELL A BLOODY AND DEADLY REVOLUTION IN THE AIR.

3 months time Nigeria will have lots of Public office holders going into hiding, resigning and being killed.

It is innevitable as that is the ONlY Solution to a better Nigeria.

Are you seeing what i am seeing?

These are serious allegations against d governor, and it should be investigated by EFCC. We know say dey no go investigate jack. I wonder where d labour leaders are when dey are most needed.

Human right organization in Nigeria please help the poor civil servant.

Pdp governors!

Minion:My Lord! Another brave Nigerian is put down
Hades: It is the ways of mortals. Steal a little, they hang you. Steal a lot, they kill those who want to hang you.
Minion: My King! So Nigerians suffer from themselves?!

this is just the beginning........Nigeria I hail thee

VERY unfortunate for the civil servant.

Hmmmm, see money o. Make una thief dis country dry o.

Something like that happened when obama won the presidential election. Poor civil servant

Only revolution can save Nigeria from the East,North,South a[b][/b]nd west. Nowhere is corruption free. They use our religion and ethnic differences to stop us. We need 'Operation all crook must die' to free this great giant from final death.

Civil servants are supposed to be anonymous. . .seen but not heard. In this regard, I'd say his dismissal is not entirely surprising. What I find unacceptable is his arrest and arraignment in court for "defaming" the governor.

Why are they hidding our comment? We didn't say anything illicit!?

O boi, this nairaland is becoming sheety!

Besides this is politics, it is dirty, from the people doing it to the talk of it.. I just said the guy shud admit he's no different and your hidding my post.

WTF?! Since when can you just summarily "terminate" a Civil Servants' appointment?!
This guy should SUE the State for every damn penny they've got! Idiotas!

So unfortunate for the civil servant. This massive corruption that PDP invented has also spread to other parties as well.