Opeoluwa Lawal, a Lagos-based a Professional Mariner argues that Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi may have disrupted the processes and procedures in the Nigerian Ports Authority through an overbearing ministerial supervision
Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has pulled the trigger on the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala-Usman, culminating in her suspension and probe.
To be sure, Ministry of Transportation supervises the NPA. Hadiza is passing through a baptism of fire, for the first time in her public service career. The only other time she came close to open public inquisition was when she was a Special Assistant to Malam Nasir el-Rufai as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory between 2003 and 2007 and the Senate could not come to terms with the fact that Hadiza and one other were being paid N1 million as monthly salary. el-Rufai who was the one on the spot had put up a robust defence of his decision to remunerate them hands
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BY DANJUMA KATSINA
The suspension of the managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hajiya Hadiza Bala Usman, by the minister of transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, contravened the disciplinary procedure against chief executive officers of federal government parastatals, agencies and departments approved by President Muhammadu Buhari in May 2020.
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Findings show that the transportation minister, relying on some unsubstantiated information from the budget office about alleged non-remittance and without recourse to hearing from Bala-Usman, surreptitiously wrote to President Muhammadu Buhari to get the NPA managing director suspended.
The suspended NPA boss was not told what her offences were or formally communicated before her suspension was announced by the presidency. Not querying or making her aware of her offence(s) before suspending her is a clear breach of the procedures enshrined in the government’s own regulation for disciplining heads of go
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