Benue Floods: Camp manager in trouble over insubordination

 

Camp manager in charge of the Makurdi Ultra Modern market camp, housing the Benue flood Internally Displaced Persons IDPs has been sacked.

Mr. James Iorhuna, according to information, was sacked at the weekend because of alleged irregularities in handling relief materials and other series of complaints from victims currently taking refuge at the camp.

One of the camp officials, who does not want her name in print told our correspondent that though she was not aware of other complaints, she was told the camp manager was removed for distributing some bags of rice to IDPs without approvals from the Committee in charge of the flood relief, headed by the Deputy Governor, Engr. Benson Abounu.

“I was not there when the thing happened, but when I came to the camp I was told the IDPs needed food, so the camp manager took permission from the executive secretary of the state management agency, who was on ground to share it, but when the deputy governor, who is heading the committee on flood relief came, he was angry that the decision was taken without his approval,” she noted.

The deputy governor of Benue state and chairman of Committee on Flood Relief,  Engr. Benson Abounu, in an interview with newsmen yesterday denied that the camp manager has been sacked, saying he was “only angry with him for acting without instructions.

“It is an internal affair, it’s like you have a management situation where someone did not carry out instructions given to him by his boss and the boss gets angry.

“I was momentarily angry, I am still looking into the matter. “The only thing he did was that I gave instructions and he did not follow the instructions, it may not necessarily mean that he engaged in sharp practices. “I gave instructions that certain things should not be done in the camp and he violated such instructions”, he said.

 

 

 

 

 

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