EXCLUSIVE: How Bala Usman Unlawfully Frustrated NPA Contractors, Caused Huge Losses In Nigeria s Maritime Sector
A top official in the agency said the move was a grand scheme orchestrated and executed by Bala Usman for selfish reasons but made to outwardly appear like something that had the support of the kitchen cabinet of the Muhammadu Buhari’s Presidency.
by SaharaReporters, New York
May 16, 2021
Documents seen by SaharaReporters have revealed how the suspended Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Ms Hadiza Bala Usman worked to frustrate the Integrated Logistics Services Limited (INTELS) and other contractors, by revoking their contracts and frustrating their concessions.
By
Ibrahim Zubairu, Ph.D
Since the news of the suspension of the Managing Director, Ms Hadiza Bala-Usman broke, both her supporters and critics have been speculating about what could have led to the action by Government. Many campaigners, activists, politicians, feminist organizations have taken sides against each other. Some accused the officials of the Ministry of Transportation for not yielding to due process in their actions while others insisted that her travails were merely because she was a woman. For many observers such sentiments were not expected. The suspended Managing Director is a woman, member of the ruling party, former Chief of Staff to Kaduna State and a cofounder of Bring Back Our Girls Movement among other things. She is also a daughter of late Fulani historian and popular academic Dr. Yusufu Bala-Usman of the ruling family of Sullubawa clan. In a country in which where you come from contributes substantially to how far you can go, she appears to have some of t