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Just as the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof Itse Sagay, Thursday took a swipe at two agencies of the administration for still engaging in untidy deals, President Mohammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption fight has taken more knocks, it was revealed yesterday.While the Federal Govern-ment has adopted and placed incentives for whistle blowing as a means of fighting corruption in the country, top government officials have slapped the government policy by terminating the career of an assistant director, who raised the alarm that the sum of $229,000 and N800,000 had been diverted by key officials in the Directorate of Technical Cooperation in Africa, an agency under the Ministry of ForeignAffairs.The whistle blower, Mr. Ntia Thompson, an assistant director with the Directorate for Technical Cooperation in Africa, who blew the lid in the fraud that embarrassed the key masterminds, was initially suspended from work on December 19, 2016 and was finally dismissed from service on February 7, 2017.Whistle-blowersAccording to a public notice, the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, KHADIJA BUKAR ABBA IBRAHIM, who supervises the DTCA, approved the compulsory retirement of Ntia from work with immediate effect.Although it was not clear as at last night if the letter had been served onthe sacked director, a copy of the notice of his dismissal had been posted on the DTCA public notice board.The sack letter signed by Sanda S. Isah, Head of Administration Department in DTCA and addressed to all staff, said, “ I am directed to inform you that following the recommendations of the Senior Staff Appointment Promotion and Disciplinary Committee on Acts of Serious Misconduct against Mr. NtiaU. Thompson, the Honourable Minister of State, Ministry of ForeignAffairs and Chairman Presidential Inter-Ministerial Committee on the DTCA, has approved the CompulsoryRetirement of Mr. Ntia U. Thompson from the services of the DTCA with effect from 7th February 2017.“In view of the above, Mr. Ntia U Thompson ceased to be a staff of the DTCA with effect from 7th February 2017.“All members of staff and the general public are hereby advised to take note”.The letter was signed and placed on the public notice of the DTCA on Friday with a handwritten instruction‘Please Read’.However, competent staff within the agency, who believe that the money in question was actually diverted wonder why both the police and the anti-graft agency whose attention was drawn to the fraud, turned a blind eye to the inimical act and allowed the suspects to go scot-free and boldly unleash their fangs on thevictim.Competent senior officials in the DTCA provided documents to allege some of the 14-member panel raisedby the government to probe the allegations of breaching service rules levelled against the whistleblower could have been compromised.The officials provided a list of 11 new senior staff hurriedly employed by the leadership of the DTCA without advertisement or declarationof vacancies by the directorate in order to silence the panellists and get them to ease out the whistleblower from the establishment.The document shows that the 11 ‘new staff’ were all employed as either Administrative Officer or Accounts Officer on the same date of December 30, 2016, just a day to the end of the year.The officials confirmed that the new employees are either direct children or relatives of the panel members who were supposed to interview Mr. Thompson and write a report based on the civil service regulations and decide on whether he should be commended for the act of patriotismwhich he showed by reporting the diversion of the money in question.One of the officials in the DTCA said,“If the government wants to know the truth about the identities of the 11 new staff and their relationship with the members of the panel that recommended the dismissal of Mr. Thompson, it should ask for the names of the new workers, their state of origin and their parents and see if they are related to the panellists.“We have all the names and we can give them to the government any time they are ready to do proper investigation to know if the right thing was done and whether a minister and other top officials benefitted from the diverted cash or not,” one of the aggrieved workers atDTCA said.It was not clear whether the sack of the staff would be approved by the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, which has not been informed of the ugly development.Whistle blowing a new concept introduced by the present administration to horn in graft, has reportedly led to the recovery of billions of Naira so far but it is not clear why many top government officials are frontally opposed to it.It will he recalled that Ntia, as assistant director in charge of Servicom Unit at the DTCA had written a petition to the EFCC last December drawing attention to the surreptitious withdrawal of the sum of $229,000 and another N800,000 from the agency’s account purportedly for the purpose of celebrating the the tenth anniversaryof the Nigerian Technical Cooperation Fund (NTCF) which wasallocated $36,852.00, and monitoring of various projects executed from the Trust Fund across Africa.However, when Ntia got wind of the diversion of the fund, he immediately reported the ugly development to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission asking it to investigate the fraud .Findings showed that although the EFCC waded into the matter and compelled the affected officials to refund the sum of N800,000, no further action was taken against the officials to refund the $229,000 which they had already taken.But a few days after the EFCC had begun investigation into the scam, the whistle blower was summoned by the DTCA and queried on why he leaked official documents to the anti-graft agency and the media thereby exposing the agency to embarrassment.Arising from the police report, the DTCA on December 19, 2016 formally suspended Mr. Thompson from work and asked him to surrender all property in his disposalto the agency with immediate effect. The suspension letter with ref. No. DTCA/P.082 Vol 1 was entitled, “Letter of suspension from duty” andsigned by Sanda Isah, Head, Department of Administration/Secretary SSAPDC.The letter said, “You will recall that you indulged in a series of acts of serious misconduct bordering on “violation of official oath of secrecy”,“absence from duty without leave” and “disobeying lawful instructions from superiors”. “Even though these acts were established to be heinous violation of the provisions of Chapter3, Section 4, Rules 030402 (e, f, I, n, t, and w), management considered and meted on you the compassionate penalties of “letter ofreprimand, letter of serious warning, and a query for abandoning official duties in defiance of lawful instructions from superiors, respectively.Yet, these infractions did not abate. “It will also be recalled that on the 14th of July 2016, you wrote a petition to the Inspector General of Police in which you alleged threat to your life and that of your family members by the Acting Director-General, Mr. Mohammed Kachallah and Mallam Garba Alhaji Mohammed, Head of Programme Management of DTCA.“In view of the weighty nature of this allegation, the police carried out a thorough inquest into the matter andturned in the final report. The report exonerated the two officers mentioned in the allegation of criminal intimidation thereby establishing that you made “false claims against government officials”.“Against the backdrop of these serious infractions, the Inter-Ministerial meeting of the Senior Staff Appointment, Promotion and Disciplinary Committee met and looked into these issues in line with the provisions of the PSR. The committee recommended for your suspension from office pending the outcome of a final report of a sub-committee set up on the matter.“In view of the above, you are herebysuspended from office immediately in line with the provisions of Chapter3, Section 4, Rules 030205 and 030406 of the PSR. You are therefore directed to hand over all official documents/properties in your possession to the most senior officer in the unit.” |
ABUJA—The Federal Government has approved the temporary closure of Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, with effect from midnight of March 7 to pave way for rehabilitation of the runway for six weeks. Managing Director of Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, Saleh Dunoma, who announced this, yesterday, said the airport would be re-opened for operations on April 19, 2017. Dunoma stated further that due to the temporary closure, Kaduna Airport, which had been upgraded to international status, would serve as the alternate from March 8 till the completion of the rehabilitation. He said: “Normal operations will re-commence at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on the 19th April, 2017. “The Authority has put in place necessary facilities that will ensure the safety and security of all airport users and seamless facilitation at the Kaduna International Airport. He appealed to air passengers to be patient with FAAN “as we continue to upgrade our facilities in compliance with NCAA and ICAO Annexes, which bothers on security and safety at the airports. |
Ibadan – The Federal High Court in Ibadan on Wednesday awarded N530,000 to Oluwole Aluko for unathorised deduction from his mobile lines by MTN, Nigeria.In his judgment , Justice Nathaniel Ayo-Emmanuel, held that MTN had admitted guilt by not challenging the action.“The plaintiff has the right to allow orreject the use of a caller tune. MTN cannot force the use of any caller tune on him or anybody because it isunlawful.“Though the plaintiff sought N10 million as damages, but I hold that any damage suffered must be commensurate with the claim.“I, hereby, award a cost of N500,000 for the damages suffered and another N30,000 as cost incurred during the court process,” he said.The plaintiff, who is also the counselin the case, had in 2016 instituted a N10 million suit against MTN.He claimed that the communication company unlawfully made series of deductions from three of his MTN lines for caller tunes he did not subscribe to.However, Mr Fatiullah Tiamiyu, the defence counsel, denied that MTN was not served any court process.“That is the reason the company hasnot been represented in any previous sitting,” he said. |
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The National Association of NigerianStudents (NANS) has given 48 hoursultimatum to all South African companies in Nigeria to relocate over the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in South Africa.The students gave the ultimatum at a peaceful demonstration at some South African companies in Abuja on Thursday.During the march the students carried a banner, which read: ‘’NANS against Xenophobic Attacks on Nigerians.’’While the students marched, the security men stood and watched to ensure law and order.The President of NANS, Mr Kadiri Aruna, said in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at DSTV office, a South African company, in Wuse 2, Abuja, that Nigerian students had resolved to condemn the attacks.“We are saying that enough is enough as South Africans have openly attacked and bullied Nigerians.’’Aruna said that the protest would also serve as a warning to other countries trying to underrate Nigerians.He said that after 48 hours, if nothing was done, messages would be sent to students in all university campuses to bring down MTN masts all over the country.Aruna said that DSTV and Shoprite would also be affected as the union had put adequate strategies in place to make the action effective.“All the South African business empires in Nigeria and their collaborators in Nigeria will be affected.Xenophobic Attacks:Nigerians protesting against xenophobic attacks in South Africa at the South African High Commission, in Abuja, Photos: Gbemiga Olamikan.“I don’t want to say we will be barbaric but we will not be lawful in our actions, we will do it and face theconsequences, enough of this rubbish,’’ he said.Aruna stressed that the poor treatment being meted out to Nigerians was particularly insulting given the role Nigeria played in ending the apartheid regime in SouthAfrica.“Nigeria contributed 80 per cent of the freedom the South Africans are enjoying today because we saved them from the jaws of apartheid.“Who is South Africa to humiliate Nigeria? So they forget things so soon, let them go back to history andrecords to see how much financial assistance and what the country did to save them,’’ he said.The union president said that the situation was inhuman and for this reason all reasonable Nigerians must react.“In science they say you use malaria to cure malaria, now you use madness to cure their madness, andthat is why we are advising them to leave Nigerian soil before 48 hours.’’He said that the Federal Governmentshould not wait till the dying minute before evacuating Nigerians from South Africa.Aruna said it was time for government not to only condemn theattacks but take a firm stand by summoning South Africa’s high commissioner and if possible cut diplomatic ties with that country.“Government should take extra-diplomatic measures in dealing with the latest deadly assaults because if nothing drastic is done it will become a regular occurrence. “This is the time to place South Africa where it belongs,’’ he said.He said that the last time the xenophobic attack happened nothingwas done, no action was taken and no arrest was made and that was why South Africans repeated the attacks.Aruna said it was so unfortunate thatduring the attacks the South African Government refused to take up its responsibility of securing Nigerians and their properties.“The government of South Africa is criminally quiet and they say silence is consent, and their police are folding their hands while they are killing Nigerians, this is conspiracy, enough is enough,’’ he said.He said the peaceful rally would continue and spread across the country.Over 50 police and, DSS operatives surrounded the DSTV premises and along the street making it impossiblefor newsmen to contact any DSTV officials for comments. |
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