NDPHC: Senate orders reinstatement of Maryam Danna
The Senate yesterday ordered the immediate reinstatement of the sacked General Manager (Audit & Compliance) of the Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) Mrs Maryam Danna Mohammed.
The Senate resolution came 19 months after President Muhammadu Buhari directed that Mrs Mohammed, who was sacked in June 2016, be reinstated.
The resolution followed consideration of the report of the Senate committee on ethics, privileges and public petition on a petition by Mrs Mohammed presented to the Senate by Senator Baba Kaka Bashir Garbai (APC, Borno).
In addition to her reinstatement, the Senate mandated NDPHC to pay Mrs Mohammed all her entitlements, and observed that her disengagement did not follow due process.
Presenting the report, chairman of the committee, Sam Anyanwu (PDP, Imo) observed that the position of Mrs Mohammed as General Manager (Audit and Compliance) in NDPHC was not appointive but earned as a staff by growing through the ranks and through hard work
“The disengagement of the officer along with the Executive Management and the Executive Directors of NDPHC was out of order Stakeholders yesterday in Abuja urged the Federal Government to pay special attention to the wellbeing of migrant children across the country.
They drew government attention to children displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency in the Northeast.
The stakeholders made the call in Abuja at a two-day Capacity Building Training Workshop on Migrants Children in Emergencies organised by the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Person (NCFRMI) and the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD).
The event is part of the project “Migrants in Countries because due process in accordance with the terms and conditions of employment and disengagement of officers in the company was not followed,” he said.
Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu who presided over the plenary said the resolution would be communicated to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha for prompt action of the company. in Crisis (MICIC): Supporting an Evidence-based Approach for Effective and Cooperative State Action”, funded by European Union (EU) and implemented by ICMPD.
The Federal Commissioner of the NCFRMI, Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouk said the displacement of persons in the Northeast, North central, and the influx of refugees in the South-south call for more experience and skilled response in the provision of protection assistance to the Persons of Concern (POCs) and vulnerable groups, consisting of children.
The ICMPD Project Officer, Ms Daniela Blecha, said the organisation is working in five West African countries of Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire, Benin, Burkina Faso and Togo.