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A human rights organisation, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has threatened to sue the Nigerian Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) over a move to dismiss or retire a whistleblower, Richard Oghenerhoro for uncovering fake employment in the ministry and making it public. Oghenerhoro had alleged in his petition, obtained by The PUNCH, that some civil servants joined the ministry with fake appointment letters. An investigative panel was constituted following the receipt of Oghenerhoro’s petition dated July 22, 2020.
A Nigerian Government Panel has recommended that disciplinary action with the option of dismissal should be taken against one Richard Oghenerhoro, a civil servant for exposing to the public fake employment in the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing in Abuja. Ironically, President Muhammadu Buhari and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) rode to power on the mantra to fight official corruption in the system.