PDP Wants Amaechi, Usman Sacked Over Alleged ‘Looting’ Of NPA, NDDC

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded immediate sack,
investigation and prosecution of Minister of Transportation, Rotimi
Amaechi and the suspended Managing Director of the Nigeria Ports
Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman, over the alleged looting of
over N165 billion in the agency.

In a statement on Monday by the spokesman for the PDP, Kola
Ologbondiyan, the party deplored what it described as the foul
stench of corruption oozing out of the NPA, NDDC and other agencies
of government in the last six years.

The PDP said recent revelation of sleaze in the two agencies has
shown the MDAs have become the cash cows and Automated Teller
Machines (ATMs) of greedy leaders in the present
administration.

The party asserted the fact that it took the Minister five years
(2016 to 2021) to query the NPA Managing Director over the alleged
looting of N165 billion unremitted operating surplus of the agency,
has raised public belief that he (Amaechi) only acted apparently to
shied himself after indicting audit documents had already been
exposed.

The PDP said: “This is in addition to reports from the office of
Auditor General which also unearthed the looting of unremitted
deduction to Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) amounting to
N3,667,750,470. $148,845,745.04, Euro 4,891,449.50 and £252,682.14
under the suspended NPA Managing Director and Amaechi’s ministerial
supervision.

“The audit report also exposed another N15.18 billion allegedly
siphoned through shady Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
projects by the NPA, an agency under Amaechi’s ministerial
purview.

“The PDP therefore rejects the obvious attempt at a cover-up in
the recourse to an Administrative Panel of Enquiry recommended by
the Transport Minister to investigate the NPA fraud, in which he
also has some questions to answer.

“Our party insists that both the Minister and the indicted NPA
Managing Director should be handed over to the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for investigation and possible
prosecution.”

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded immediate sack,
investigation and prosecution of Minister of Transportation, Rotimi
Amaechi and the suspended Managing Director of the Nigeria Ports
Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman, over the alleged looting of
over N165 billion in the agency.

In a statement on Monday by the spokesman for the PDP, Kola
Ologbondiyan, the party deplored what it described as the foul
stench of corruption oozing out of the NPA, NDDC and other agencies
of government in the last six years.

The PDP said recent revelation of sleaze in the two agencies has
shown the MDAs have become the cash cows and Automated Teller
Machines (ATMs) of greedy leaders in the present
administration.

The party asserted the fact that it took the Minister five years
(2016 to 2021) to query the NPA Managing Director over the alleged
looting of N165 billion unremitted operating surplus of the agency,
has raised public belief that he (Amaechi) only acted apparently to
shied himself after indicting audit documents had already been
exposed.

The PDP said: “This is in addition to reports from the office of
Auditor General which also unearthed the looting of unremitted
deduction to Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) amounting to
N3,667,750,470. $148,845,745.04, Euro 4,891,449.50 and £252,682.14
under the suspended NPA Managing Director and Amaechi’s ministerial
supervision.

“The audit report also exposed another N15.18 billion allegedly
siphoned through shady Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
projects by the NPA, an agency under Amaechi’s ministerial
purview.

“The PDP therefore rejects the obvious attempt at a cover-up in
the recourse to an Administrative Panel of Enquiry recommended by
the Transport Minister to investigate the NPA fraud, in which he
also has some questions to answer.

“Our party insists that both the Minister and the indicted NPA
Managing Director should be handed over to the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for investigation and possible
prosecution.”