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The repeated cases of financial scandals that have been the normal routine in the embattled Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management calls for much worries and concern for Nigerians who are beginning to see the Ministry as a hub for perpetrating frauds. Consecutively those who have been appointed to oversee the activities of the ministry have made diversion, misappropriation and illegal distribution of funds to friends, allies and selected beneficiaries a norm that has continually deep them into financial recklessness.
The establishment of the ministry by President Muhammad Buhari was with good intention aimed at ameliorating poverty and empowering vulnerable Nigerians. But it now appears that the ministry is fast becoming a hot spot and a mine site for government officials appointed by their principals at the Federal Executive Council. The worries is that women who are by nature known to be prudent, modest and good savers of money have consistently lavished such huge amounts in their custody as Ministers in- charge of the Ministry. First Sadia Farouq, second is Betta Edu and who knows what the next woman to be appointed will do if assigned similar portfolio.
It is now advisable to plea as a way of advise to the President, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to proffer a lasting solution to this perpetual cases of scandals. Omoluabi Team Alliance Socio-cultural Group is of the opinion that in averting the re- occurrence of this menace which is fast becoming a sort of national embarrassment to the President, it is absolutely advisable that the embattled Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social investment be scrapped with immediate effect as suspending the activities of the Ministry is not a lasting solution at all.
Over the last few years the Ministry has played the role of a parasite with no significant contribution to the economy. Rather than ameliorate poverty and sufferings of the people, it has made it a point of duty to deny Nigerians the social benefits accrued them by government. There are reported cases of conditional cash transfers in the market places where only 10 market women or men got the cash transfer but officially reported at the Ministry to have made the transfers to 50 market women or men. There are cases of fake or ghost NPower recruits who don't exist physically but exist on paper. There are cases of palliative intended to be distributed to Nigerians by donors and government but were diverted into personal stores and warehouses in big markets in various parts of the country. The most recent are cases of relief packages meant to be distributed to Nigerians across the 36 States and the FCT as a relief for the subsidy removal pains but reports show that the relief packages involving bags of rice, beans and other grains were diverted and only made available to the political elites and selected party loyalists.
"We appeal to Mr. President to take the bull by the horn and immediately announce the scrapping of the Ministry so as to save the country of unpatriotic and dishonest Ministers and their cronies feeding fat on the commonwealth and benefits of about two hundred million Nigerians in hunger and lost their assets to unsolicited natural disasters."
Omoluabi Group however recommend that all suspects who have done this evil to Nigerians despite harsh economic conditions should be punished, jailed and made to refund all looted funds back to the nation's purse.
"We recommend that disaster management should be the affairs of NEMA, school feeding programme returned to Ministry of Education, Npower be returned to NDE, with other subsidiary programmes of Npower such as Agric and ICT be returned to the existing relevant Federal Ministries".
"We are confident in the leadership style and decisions of the People's President, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as he is committed to good governance devoid of corruption."
E- Signed:
Omoluabi JAYEOLA, A.O.
National Convener and Leader
13/1/2024
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