Marilyn Amobi, former managing director of the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Company (NBET), has petitioned President Bola Tinubu over alleged false allegations levelled against her by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC).
In a letter dated December 5 and titled “In the matter of
serious corporate misconduct by multiple breaches of the public service rule
and financial regulation by the board of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory
Commission”, Amobi asked the president to set up an administrative process to
hear her petition.
The former NBET MD said the commission, in two different
letters dated September 6, 2018, and June 29, 2020, accused her of “wanton
destruction of commission’s property and assault against its contractor”.
Amobi said the contractor, in a letter, had denied the
alleged assault against its staff.
She said the electricity regulator’s allegations contravene
the behavioural guidelines for public servants prescribed in the public service
rule and financial regulation, as “taxpayers’ money was used to pursue self-serving
objectives”.
Amobi added that the allegations have damaged her reputation
and brand internationally, and asked the president to institute disciplinary
processes against the NERC board.
“I, humbly attach my Petition Initiation Document (PID) that
sets out in a factual chronology, the steps I took but failed to the Board to
withdraw the maliciously induced false allegations and publish an unreserved
apology to me in national newspapers,” Amobi said.
“The Commission did not clearly specify the allegedly
damaged property or outline the acceptable or preferred oath-taking process
required for Dr. Amobi to demonstrate behavior deemed satisfactory by the
Commission. Furthermore, it failed to provide sufficient details to facilitate
the identification of the alleged contractors with reasonable diligence. As a
result, it was impossible for Dr. Amobi to comply with the Commission’s
directives, effectively placed her at risk of further reprimands.”
Amobi said James Momoh, a former NERC chairman, wrote a
letter to the NBET board chairman and the minister of finance, accusing her of
insubordination to the minister of power.
Amobi became NBET MD in July 2016. In 2019, Sale Mamman,
former minister of power, asked her to step down immediately.
Mamman said the move was to “restore sanity” in the
company’s management, but former President Muhammadu Buhari overruled the
minister and recalled Amobi. The former president also moved NBET from the
ministry of power to the ministry of finance.
In June 2020, the power minister asked Amobi to go on
terminal leave and announced Nnaemeka Ewelukwa as the new NBET MD. However, the
former president ordered that Amobi be allowed to serve out her tenure till
July 2020.
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