Drama as Sacked Heads of Agencies Refuse to Handover

Many Heads of agencies sacked by President Muhammadu Buhari have blatantly refused to handover or vacate their seats in defiance to the sack announced by the president.

After the Federal Government sacked about 26 heads of government agencies on Monday, investigations revealed about five are yet to to vacate office 48 hours since the directive was given.

 

It was gathered that those who obeyed the directive did so in a controversial manner as many refused to hand over to the most senior officers. This has led to more drama and crisis in some organizations necessitating the police to step in to maintain order.

 

Dailytrust reports that the sacked executive secretary at the Petroleum Equalisation Fund (PEF) Mrs. Asabe Asmau Ahmed, showed up for a meeting Tuesday during which she announced Alhaji Ahmed Bobboi as the acting ES instead of Hajiya Aisha Usman, who, sources said, is the most senior officer at the Fund.

 

“This is contrary to the directive from the government that the sacked CEO should hand-over to the most senior officer, who is Hajiya Aisha Usman” a source said.

 

Mrs. Usman, it was gathered, joined the board in 1997 as a manager and became a general manager in 2009 while Bobboi joined in 1998 as a deputy manager and was promoted to GM on February 1, 2016.

 

“The president could not have granted approval to counter a directive he issued. Some staff thought it was intended to create confusion as in the case of NIMASA,” the source said.

 

Also, at the Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), Dailytrust while quoting a sources said Mr. Ahmed Farouk has not handed over ‘for now’.

 

“He said there are still things to be sorted out; I don’t know what that means,” a source said.

 

Daily Trust learnt that the agency’s General Manager, Human Resources, Moses M. Mbaba, is the most senior officer at the agency.

At the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF), the General Manager, Nigerian Content, Ms Jacklyn  Guyil, has been acting as the ES but is yet to receive handover notes from Mr. Femi Ajayi.

 

When contacted, Mr. Ajayi said: “Somebody is already taking charge of PTDF; we are still working on our hand over notes. Before this recent development I went for a seminar on oil and gas in the U.S, somebody was already acting and on coming back this happened. So, the person continues to act while I prepare my handover notes.”

 

At the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) the feud over who should succeed Emeka Ezeh seems to have been settled.

Ezeh, it was learnt, handed over to the Bureau’s Director of Energy Infrastructure Babatunde Kuye on Tuesday, a move that didn’t go down well with some other senior directors.

 

Clarifying the air, Bureau’s Head of Media, Thomas Odemwingie, denied there was a tussle.

 

“There was no tussle. It was just that someone needed clarification on the criteria, which was validly given by the former DG. It was amicably settled,” he said.

 

But it was all drama at the National Centre for Women Development (NCWD), a mild drama ensued during the handover ceremony by the former Director General, Onyeka Onwenu yesterday.

 

The former DG was said to have angered the staff when she sought to hand over to Mr Sadiq Umar, the director, Planning, Research and Statistics instead of Mr Abdulmalik Dauda, the director, Human Resource Management, who is said to be the most senior.

 

At about 2pm yesterday when the handing over ceremony began, staff blocked the DG’s car as well as the entrance to the venue, shouting at the top of their voices that she would not leave the premises until she did the right thing.

 

Chairman of the Nigerian Civil Service Union, the NCWD chapter, Musa Muhammed, said the staff used the occasion to express their grievances.

 

Fearing that the situation will turn violent, mobile policemen were called to calm the situation.

 

Dailytrust reports that at the Industrial Training Fund (ITF) the former DG, Mrs. Juliet Chukka-Onaeko, was yet to hand over as at 3pm yesterday while at the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), the former ES, Prof. Suleiman Bogoro, endorsed the letter from the federal government and briefed the Director in Executive Secretary’s  office, Malam Aliyu Na’iya, to oversee the affairs of the office from Tuesday.

 

source: tori ng