How VP and SGF unlawfully stripped a female government official from her position

The degree of tyranny and impunity in the Buhari led All Progressive Congress (APC) federal government is becoming so alarming each day, with no regard to peoples’ right and respect for the Constitutionalism.

The apparent nonattendance of due process in the Buhari led present regime has again gone to the fore as the Office of Vice President and Secretary to the Government of the Federation have been fingered in wrongful withdrawal of Mrs Maryam Danna, a top shot at the Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC), Economic Confidential has learnt.

Mrs Danna who was cut off in an alleged dubious conditions, is a Chartered Account from Borno State and had ascended from the position of Auditor at the outdated National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) in 1992 to General Manager, Audit and Compliance at NDPHC in 2011.

The NDPHC is joined under the Companies and Allied Matters Act as a private private limited liability with terms and conditions of employment and disengagement. It likewise has a Board which comprises of the Vice-President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as Chairman, six (6) Governors of the six (6) Geo-Political Zones in the nation and four (4) Ministers specifically that of Finance, Power, Petroleum and Justice.

With no inquiry, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Engr. Babachir David Lawal, who is also entangled in corruption delivered the letter passing on notice of her sack as GM NDPHC which takes effect from 10th June, 2016 while a Special Adviser to Vice President Yemi Osinbanjo was delegated as acting Managing Director of the organization.

At first, the SGF had declared the disintegration of the Executive Management of NDPHC by the Federal Government and instructed the Managing Director of the organization to handover to the Aide of Vice President. He likewise instructed all the Executive Directors to handover quickly to the most senior officers in their separate divisions. Inquisitively, there are twelve (12) other General Managers of a similar status with Mrs Maryam however were permitted to stay in their positions, clearly in light of the fact that they are staff of the organization (like Maryam) and not individuals from the disintegrated Executive Management.

The alienated Chartered Accountant who began her career in the then National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) in 1992 as an Officer II Audit, ascended through the positions to the position of Assistant General Manger (Audit) in 2010 while in the administration of Power Holdings Company of Nigeria (PHCN) before moving to the Niger Delta Holding Company where she was elevated to the rank of General Manager (Audit and Compliance) on first July, 2011.

Then it is alleged that Mrs Danna who is generally known as due process promoter, may have been oppressed by a few people close to some influential authorities in government who may have felt abused with some of her intense choices while she was the Auditor in the workplace. It is accumulated that the Special Adviser to the Vice-President who is designated acting Managing Director of the organization was at one time a staff of one of the contractual workers to NDPHC. There is likewise an instance of an Executive Director in NDPHC who never served in NYSC progamme however is as of now serving as a permanent secretary in an intense government service with supervisory powers on NDPHC.

Economic Confidential accumulated that one of the Supervisory Ministers who explored the instance of unlawful separation of Mrs Maryam has since kept in touch with President Muhammadu Buhari through the Chief of Staff, Abbah Kyari for her reestablishment.

Mrs Danna hailed from Borno, a State that is horribly underrepresented as well as where Girl-Child Education is at its most reduced ebb. She battled despite seemingly insurmountable opposition to get to her present status, by acquiring significant extra expert capabilities, for example, certification of membership of Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (FCIT) among others.

As a duly married lady and mother, who was never been discovered found wanting in her twenty-four years of administration to the nation, the minimum she merited is empathy and consolation as opposed to abuse and undignified abuse by the Federal Government.