By John Oba
Abuja
A civil society group, the National Democratic Font (NDF), has faulted the appointment of Mrs. Saratu Umar as the Executive Secretary of Nigeria Investment Promotion Council (NIPC) by President Goodluck Jonathan, describing her as “incompetent.”
The group which barricaded the entrance of the agency said they protested to correct the ‘rare error’ committed by the president in her appointment, describing the president as “an advocate of round peg in the round hole.”
National President of the group, Comrade Agbese Philip, said it was laughable to bestow such an immense responsibility as executive secretary of an all-important image-making and economy building establishment as NIPC on Umar based on her antecedents from the previous position she held.
Delivering his speech directed to the president titled ‘an opened letter to Mr. President,’ Phillip said “we are here gathered to correct a rare error committed by president Goodluck Jonathan who is a known advocate of due process and an ardent believer in the concept of round pegs in round holes or whichever proxy made the appointment of Mrs. Saratu Umar as executive secretary.”
“Our angst has been sourced from the discovery from the gory and unsavoury previous records of the said character of Mrs. Umar who was summarily resigned from a sister agency, Nigerian Export and Import Bank (NEXIM), where she manipulated her rise to the position of Assistant General Manager, a position she held till her compulsory retirement.”
Phillip said: “Mrs. Umar was compulsorily asked to retire from the service of NEXIM on the infamous grounds of low performance, incompetence and lack of regard for constituted authority. These qualities which she has been formally proven to be lacking in previous position of responsibility at NEXIM are still needed at NIPC.”
