Hadiza Bala Usman denies allegation of financial misappropriation
Hadiza Bala Usman, suspended Managing Director of the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA), has said the allegations of financial misappropriation levelled against her are false..
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Sat May 08 2021
Hadiza Bala Usman, suspended Managing Director of the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA), has said the allegations of financial misappropriation levelled against her are false.
Usman in a letter to the Chief of Staff to the president, Amb. Ibrahim Gambari, dated May 5, a copy of which was made available to our reporter, said the figures 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 derived following the statutory audit of the authorities financial statements.
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Buhari Government Set To Use Probe Of Nigerian Ports Authority To Implicate Agency s Suspended MD, Usman
Amaechi had in a letter to the President on March 4, 2021, urged Buhari to approve the auditing of the NPA over shortfall in revenue.
by SaharaReporters, New York
May 07, 2021
The auditing of the finances of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) between 2016 and 2020 as suggested by the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi and approved by President Muhammadu Buhari will be used to implicate the suspended Managing Director of the agency, SaharaReporters has learnt.
Amaechi had in a letter to the President on March 4, 2021, urged Buhari to approve the auditing of the NPA over shortfall in revenue.
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the recommendation of the Ministry of Transportation under Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi for the setting up of an administrative panel of inquiry to investigate the Management of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, the president s spokesperson, Garba Shehu, said in a statement. When the going was good It was Amaechi who nominated Bala Usman as NPA boss in 2016 because his ministry directly supervises the ports authority one of the most lucrative agencies in the federal bureaucracy. Bala Usman also worked with Amaechi on the Buhari presidential campaign of 2015. Amaechi served as Director General of the Buhari for President campaigns in 2015 and 2019.
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ICPC warns against project duplication
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The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has warned against project duplication.
Chairman of the commission, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, gave the warning at a Policy Dialogue on Corruption and Cost of Governance in Nigeria, hosted by the ICPC in Abuja, on Tuesday.
Owasanoye said that thousands of projects were repeated annually in the budget, without diligent scrutiny of need, implementation, or otherwise.
He added that some projects were duplicated as annual zonal intervention projects, otherwise called constituency projects of the legislature, while also featuring as projects of the executive.