Umahi speaks at the Government House in Abakaliki on January 5,
2021.
The South-East Governors Forum have accused desperate
politicians of aligning with bandits to stabilise
Nigeria.
Chairman of the Forum and Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi,
made the comments on Tuesday after a virtual meeting with the five
governors of the region in attendance.
“The governors are so worried about the killings and kidnappings
that are going on by our people in the southeast, killing our own
people and the security agencies,” he said.
“The situation is being heightened by the activities of very
desperate politicians, this time irrespective of party
affiliations.
“There are so many desperate politicians in all the political
parties that are so desperate for power and they have aligned with
some bandits in the southeast to destabilise the nation.”
Governor Umahi explained that the five southeast states
dissociated themselves from a bi-partisan meeting convened by some
stakeholders from the region on the security situation.
The Ebonyi governor urged them to instead speak out and condemn
killings within their domain.
He also seized the opportunity to shed more light on a viral
social media video, relating to the eviction of some Nigerians from
the northern part of the country resident in Ebonyi State.
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“The Fulani settlement that decided to move to Taraba State and
retained some of the family members in Ebonyi State and of course,
the man is still here.
“Politicians as we have intelligence gathering went to put a
voice and said it is the Igbos that are chasing away the herdsmen
from Ebonyi State.
“Such a video went very wide and was causing panic in other
parts of the country. That was very much uncalled for because we
also have over 11 million of our people living in the north.
“We have so many of our people living in south-south and
south-west. When people do this, they think they are doing it to
pull down a particular governor, not knowing that they are doing it
to start killings against our people.”
First City Monument Bank(FCMB) has mandated its Managing
Director, Mr. Adam Nuru to proceed on a leave pending the
determination of the probe being conducted over alleged unethical
conduct, According to TheCable report[1].
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Nairalaw recalls that a Group had earlier ignited a
petition to the CBN & FCMB Board, demanding the sack of the MD.
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This is based on the allegation that the MD foisted a state of
depression on a deceased husband of a former employee, resulting in
his death.
It was alleged that the MD had an illicit affair with the
deceased wife which produced two children, which the deceased
husband thought was his, not until the wife traveled to America
when she later disclosed the fact that the children are not for
him.
This incident coupled with some other things allegedly resulted
in the death of the deceased person.
Meanwhile, First City Monument Bank (FCMB) had earlier issued an
official statement regarding the controversies against its Managing
Director, Mr. Adamu Nuru.
The bank noted that it is “aware of several stories circulating
across several social media platforms about our Managing Director
Adam Nuru, a former employee Ms Moyo Thomas and her deceased
husband, Mr. Tunde Thomas”.
In addition, the bank added that the review will cover
likelihood of ‘any violations of our code of ethics and the
adequacy of these code of conduct ethics’, adding that same will be
done with urgency and ‘immediately’.
In the light of the above, the bank is reported to have asked
the MD proceed on leave with a view to having an effective
probe.
It was reported that the decision to ask him proceed on leave
came pursuant to the recommendation of the panel probing the
allegation against the MD.