By Francis Sardauna
Youths in Katsina State under the auspices of Katsina Youths for Sustainable Change, has condemned the suspension of the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala-Usman, describing it as unlawful and unconstitutional.
The youths equally called on President Muhammadu Buhari to disband the 11-man investigative panel inaugurated by the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, to probe the suspended NPA managing director.
They described the investigative panel as Kangaroo board of inquiry singlehandedly picked by Amaechi “from his cronies in order to unjustly nail his victim”.
The group, through its counsel, Chief E. O. Obunadike, at a press conference in Katsina Wednesday, said the NPA boss was suspended from office without constitutional rights to fair hearing as enshrined in section 36 of the 1999 Constitution as amended.