SEE WHY HADIZA BALA USMAN WAS FIRED FROM NPA

Oru Leonard

In an unexpected shake up that rocked the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman was served with an immediate suspension as the agency’s Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer and President Muhammadu Buhari immediatetly approved Mohammed Koko who was  Director of Finance in the agency to replace her.

Media reports has it that HADIZA who tried to bulldoze her way into the second tenure might have lost out for not following due process. Again, was reported that her style of running NPA affairs dripped with insubordination as she essentially shielded its affairs from the supervising Ministry of Transportation.

They pointed out that although Hadiza’s  appointment for her first term was in July 2016, she worked her way to pressure President Buhari into rolling her over for a second term, which six months before her first term lapsed.

When Supervising Minister got wind of this clandestine move, he drew the President’s attention to the anomaly pointing out that he never recommended Hadidza for tenure elongation.

The Minister also directed a probe into her administration at NPA, which made astounding discoveries of fraud and financial misappropriation directly indicting her office, which an independent probe ordered by the President confirmed all the allegations.

Embarrassed at this development, the President promised to redress the situation.

Coincidentally, a formal letter had not been issued for her second tenure expected to commence in July 2021.

Subsequently Hadiza Not only did she fail to get the second tenure she lobbied so hard for, technically, she did not even finish her first tenure, officially lapsing in July 2021.

She is the daughter of the Late Dr. Bala Usman, the famous Historian and radical of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria; former Chief of Staff to Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna her home state (2015), Hadiza had been a key figure in the Bring-Back-Our-Girls Movement and  a founding member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC