FCTA and delayed justice

Just last week President Muhammadu Buhari approved the sack of the Chairman, Investment and Securities Tribunal (IST) for opposing the progress and actualization of mandate given him on IST and its workers.

It is in this vein that we, the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations Civil Service Technical and Recreational Employees (AUPCTRE) call on the FCT Minister, Mal. Mohammed Bello, to also trigger action on corrupt chief executives and officials in his administration.

A case in point is the June 2019 arraignment by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), of the General Manager of FCT Water Board, Engr. Aliyu Ahmed Nahuce, before an FCT High Court over an alleged N275 million fraud punishable under Section 12 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act 2000.

Nahuce, while being employed as a public servant as GM FCT Water Board, sometime in July 2017 in Abuja, allegedly acquired a private interest in a company Garisun Nig. Ltd. through a company owned by his biological children and close relations, which was awarded a contract of N275m by the FCT Water Board for the water reticulation of Abaji town in the FCT yet not a single drop of water has flowed there.

It is almost four months now, yet the case has not been assigned at the FCT High Court while the GM is sitting tight in office. With the mandate of fighting corruption by the Buhari administration, the FCT Minister, who also is a staunch supporter of the anti-corruption crusade, should immediately take all the necessary action to see to the conclusion of this matter because justice delayed is justice denied.

Adebanjo Jibrin, Ag. Sec, AUPCTRE, FCT