President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the suspension of
Hadiza Bala Usman as the managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority
(NPA).
In a statement signed by Garba Shehu, presidential
spokesman, on Thursday, the suspension followed a recommendation by Rotimi
Amaechi, minister of transportation, to set up an administrative panel of
inquiry to investigate the management of the NPA.
Buhari also approved the appointment of Mohammed Koko to
take over while “the investigation is carried out”.
The panel is to be headed by the director of maritime
services in the ministry while the deputy director of legal in the same
ministry will serve as secretary.
Other members of the panel will be appointed by the minister.
Bala Usman was first appointed as the NPA MD in July 2016.
In January, President Muhammadu Buhari reappointed her as
NPA MD, for an additional five-year tenure.
She previously served as the chief of staff to Nasir
el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, from 2015 to 2016.
In 2014, she co-founded the Bring Back Our Girls campaign to
advocate the rescue of abducted Chibok schoolgirls.
Bala Usman is also a founding member of the All Progressives
Congress (APC).
NPA recently launched Etó, an electronic truck call-up
system, aimed at tackling the perennial logjam caused by articulated trucks
within the Apapa ports corridor.
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