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| Aliyu Abdulhameed |
......Says is a great Asset to President Buhari’s administration Agricultural Policy.
A CSO known as the Citizens Communication and Advocacy
Centre (CCAC) has thrown her support behind Mr. Aliyu Abdulhameed, Managing
Director of Nigerian Incentive -based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural
Lending and condemned in strong term the negative narrative publications in
various National Newspapers and some online news platforms by some vested
interests who are very bitter for losing out in their criminal franchise of
fleecing the country of Billions of Naira in Foreign Exchange, in the name of
Food and other Agricultural Products importation due the Revolutionary
Agricultural Policy of Government, ably Facilitated by NIRSAL under the able
Leadership of Mr.Aliyu Abdulhameed with oversight from CBN.
CCAC has equally condemned the desperation of this entities, in their despicable attempt to using disgruntled Workers of NIRSAL to spread Falsehood and compromised vital official Secrets and information.
This is unacceptable and no decent Corporate
organizations worth it name, with sound Corporate Governance would allowed such
shenanigans.
In a press release on Sunday, 8th June, 2020 signed by
its Executive Director, Lord Charles Ibiang, he said that the mountains of
allegations of corruption to the tune of 75 billion; the 5.4 billion Wheat
Project in Jigawa; 4.2 billion Personnel Cost including various sundry
allegations like running a nepotistic and clannish enterprise are not only
wicked, but preposterous, baseless and reinforced Ignorance taken too Far,
because the way NIRSAL structured it's operation is difficult for such
monumental and bogus amount to be stolen by an Individual no matter his
position and Authority.
It will be recalled that NIRSAL was launched in 2011 and
Incorporated 2013 by CBN and set up as a Rubust, Innovative and holistic USD
500 millions dollars Public-Private Initiative to catalyse the Flows of Finance
and Investments in Fixed Agricultural Value Chain.
Infact it was given impetus and properly establish by
President Muhammadu Buhari 2015.
Acording to its establishing Laws, the CBN is the Head of
the Board of NIRSAL and Quarterly Board Meeting is structured for it effective
Operational and Administrative Management.
How can an individual steal 75 billion in such a very
structured Organizations with all the enabling Corporate Governance mechanism?
The CSO wondered.
The CCAC Executive Director said the NIRSAL, under
Mr.Aliyu, has grown from a small organization of less than 7 people to now one
of the best corporate entity in Nigeria, that has given real time
interpretation of President Buhari Agricultural Policy by Faciliting a
100billion in Finance and Investments in the Agricultural Value Chain from it
inception.
This is unprecedented in Nigeria history and deserved
Commendation from Every Nigerias instead of spurious allegations. NIRSAL has
performed credibly well.
Lord Charles Ibiang used the opportunity to call on CBN
not to be blackmailed into eemoval of Mr.Aliyu, exposing NIRSAL to Political
scheming of instability and Leadership turnover.
He also admonish and call on Media & Civil Society
Organizations that serve as Citizen's Protectors to always carry out extensive
study of issues concerning a State of affairs before commenting, so as not to
misinform the Citizens by destroying the Reputation of Professionals who want
to help by serving as Public Officers.
“Let us join hands and support an achiever to succeed and
reformed the Nigerian Agricultural Sector value Chain characterizes by its
primitive and opaque nature, the statement concluded.
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