[FILE PHOTO] Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority, Hadiza Bala Usman
President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday asked the managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority Hadiza Bala Usman to step aside to give room for an unfettered investigation of the NPA. x
Mr Mohammed Koko will act in that position.
The development came following President Buhari’s approval of the recommendation of the Ministry of Transportation under Rotimi Amaechi for the setting up of an Administrative Panel of Inquiry to investigate the NPA Management.
The panel is to be headed by the Director, Maritime Services of the Ministry while the Deputy Director, Legal of the same ministry will serve as Secretary.
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The sack of the managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, Hadiza Bala Usman is to give room for unfettered investigation of the organization, the presidency has said.
Earlier, The Street Journal had reported how Bala-Usman was sacked from her high profile job, and the announcement of her replacement in the person of Mohammed Kolo.
The development came following President Buhari’s approval of the recommendation of the Ministry of Transportation under Rotimi Amaechi for the setting up of an Administrative Panel of Inquiry to investigate the NPA Management.
The panel is to be headed by the Director, Maritime Services of the Ministry while the Deputy Director, Legal of the same ministry will serve as Secretary.
Garba Shehu, late on Thursday, announced the approval of the recommendation of the Ministry of Transportation under
Rotimi Amaechi, for an administrative panel of inquiry on the NPA management, as well as the suspension the Managing Director. Similarly, Shehu also announced the appointment of
Mohammed Koko as acting Managing Director of the NPA, pending the completion of the investigation by the panel, to be headed by a Director. The panel is to be headed by the Director, Maritime Services of the Ministry, while the Deputy Director, Legal of the ministry will serve as Secretary. Capt. Tony Onoharigho, President, Nigerian Institute of Shipping (NIS), in his reaction, said that there was nothing wrong with someone being suspended so far as the person committed an offence.
Maritime Stakeholders Support FG’s Action On Bala-Usman’s Suspension Posted by Tolulope OguguaFeatured, Latest News, News Across Nigeria Friday, May 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Some maritime stakeholders in Lagos has backed the Federal Government’s suspension of the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), saying it had the right to hire and fire anyone in its establishment.
The stakeholders were reacting to the suspension of the Managing Director of Nigerian Port Authority (NPA), Ms Hadiza Bala-Usman on May 6, by President Muhammadu Buhari, to pave the way for an administrative inquiry of the NPA management.
The President’s spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, late on Thursday, announced the approval of the recommendation of the Ministry of Transportation under Rotimi Amaechi, for an administrative panel of inquiry on the NPA management, as well as the suspension the Managing Director.