A former Director General, Nigeria Port Authority, Hadiza Bala Usman has appealed to Nigerians to discountenance the social media report accusing her of not remitting over N40 billion to the Federal Government (FG) coffer, during her tenure, declaring the claim as falsehood.
Usman in a statement she personally signed Tuesday declared that the report was “falsehood, which is meant to serve the ulterior motives of its promoters”.
She narrated in the statement that on Tuesday morning, several people sent her a social media post with the title: “NPA Audit indicts Hadiza Bala Usman for not remitting N40b, $921.61m and £289.931.82 to federal government accounts.”
The reports alleged that the Auditor-General of the Federation had issued some queries regarding monies being owed the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), by Terminal Operators.
Usman stated that expectedly, the NPA should clear the air about the allegations, and for this reason, she had refused to make any comments since the news broke.
“However, it is becoming more apparent that tarnishing my image is the primary mission of promoters of the story” she reacted.
Usman said further: “I make bold to say that this report is untrue and a fallacy from the imagination of anyone spreading the falsehood.
“I also challenge anyone with proofs of this allegation to present them in public.
“The truth is that even if there are monies unremitted into the federal government’s accounts, these monies will remain in the Treasury Single Account (TSA) where all revenues generated by the Authority domiciles. In addition, the Authority will have explanations for any audit queries that may arise, whenever they do.
“The report claimed that the imaginary allegations of abuse of office, corrupt enrichment and failure to account for billions of naira led to my purported sack.
“I state without any equivocation that I have not received any information about my purported sack from any quarters until this moment.
The NPA boss insisted that she has never been indicted for any offence as alleged in “these increasing lies”.
She stated that was apparent that realizing that no credible media outlet would publish unsubstantiated claims as in the case under discussion, the promoters of this falsehood have adopted the social media option.
Usman declared that she was proud of her service to the nation, regardless of repeated attempts by her detractors to paint her and her service in black.
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