If this does not stop, I will have no choice but to exercise my rights under the law to institute legal action against any publication that lends itself to the propagation of falsehood against my person and my service at the NPA.Why you should have a blueprint for your house construction Let me serve as a reminder to the CSO and the newspaper that I worked closely with President Tinubu as Deputy-Director General, Administration, of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, so my being in his presence is a natural fallout of my ongoing working relationship with him and cannot be construed as some orchestrated parade.įinally, with this statement, I hereby put individuals, organisations like Centre LLI (and their sponsors), and media organisations on notice to desist from publishing defamatory reports, like the one under question, about me. I wrote this book to set the record straight and encourage organisations like this so-called CSO from propagating false narratives like the one in the newspaper reports.īlueprint Newspaper also claimed I am being “paraded before the President….” This is a laughable suggestion. My intent in all that we did was to ensure that all parties, including the Authority itself, followed the regulations.ĭetails of what transpired, and the query issued by the Federal Ministry of Transportation (FMOT) at the end of the eight-month Administrative Panel of Inquiry investigation, are in my book, “Stepping on Toes: My Odyssey at the Nigerian Ports Authority”. In the same vein, Ladol breached a fundamental provision of its agreement with the NPA, and we acted in line with this agreement. The dispute with Intels was about a company carrying about as if it was bigger than the laws of the country, and the NPA, under my management, fought to correct that.ĪLSO READ: ‘Why Amaechi moved against me’ – Hadiza Bala Usman opens up in new book When I exited NPA, INTELS had a total of USD$264,932,666.91 of NPA funds with it, which it refused to remit.
Intels had operated that contract since 1997, and before its expiration in 2020, the NPA had a running battle with the company over its refusal to obey the Federal Government’s directive that all government revenue must be remitted into the Treasury Single Account (TSA). The reports, quoting a statement issued by a supposed Civil Society Organisation (CSO), Centre for Leadership Legacy Int’l (Centre LLI), then cited me, Hadiza Bala Usman, as an example of ex-public servants “eased out of office following allegations of sleaze, high-handedness, and abuse of office”.įor instance, to say that I “severed” NPA’s relationship with Intels”, when what happened was the expiration of only one of the eight contractual relationships NPA had with Intels, which is the Service Boat Operations Management Agency contract, is to show the ignorance or mischief of this group of people. While the headline in LEADERSHIP reads: “Don’t appoint ex-public servants with records of sleaze, CSO cautions Tinubu”, that of Blueprint reads: “Don’t appoint ex-public servants with sleaze records, CSO advises Tinubu.” At that point, I considered the importance of giving an appropriate response. However, on Thursday, June 15, 2023, LEADERSHIP and Blueprint Newspapers published online reports which mentioned my name. Even then, I ignored these splinters of reports, mainly because the authors did not have the courage to mention my name directly. I did not think it was anything serious until I saw reports attacking my personality and service at the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA). A few weeks back, a friend drew my attention to an upcoming campaign of calumny in the media, allegedly orchestrated by people who think I might be standing in their way of achieving some ambition.
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