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The Involved Residents and Employees of the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) have petitioned the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and the Chairman of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC), calling for an pressing investigation and accountability over alleged corruption, abuse of workplace, and mismanagement by the Managing Director of the FHA, Hon. Oyetunde Ojo.
Ojo, who’s married to President Tinubu’s eldest daughter, Mrs. Folashade Tinubu-Ojo, was appointed by the President because the MD of the FHA in February 2024
The aggrieved employee urge the President, the EFCC Chairman, and the Minister of Housing and City Improvement to provoke a full-scale inquiry into the operations of the FHA beneath Ojo’s management.
Allegations embody questionable property acquisitions, illicit contract awards, extreme resort expenditures, and abuse of land administration processes.
The involved employees alleged that since he assumed workplace, the MD has turned the FHA into a private fiefdom, sidelining the supervising minister and different government management.
Of their petition, they claimed that Ojo refers to himself because the “Jagaban boy” and sometimes boasts about being untouchable, citing his shut ties with the Chief of Employees to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila and former Speaker of the Home of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal.
He additionally allegedly brags about being the President’s in-law, utilizing these affiliations to undermine lawful oversight and due course of inside the Authority.
Based on the aggrieved employees members, the establishment has degenerated right into a theatre of corruption and impunity beneath Ojo’s management.
They additional alleged that Ojo has strategically positioned people from his ethnic group into key departments, successfully undermining transparency and institutional stability.
Of explicit concern, they mentioned, is the restricted entry to information rooms by different employees, whereas delicate paperwork are reportedly manipulated to allow widespread land grabbing and extortion of property house owners.
Based on the aggrieved employees, a number of credible sources inside the FHA additionally report that the MD is at present beneath investigation for allegedly seizing lands and reselling them to new patrons, accumulating illicit kickbacks within the course of.
In a single alarming incident, a employees member was allegedly detained and tortured after being accused by the MD of stealing a $50,000 bribe associated to an unlawful transaction.
The petitioners additional alleged that the MD lives extravagantly in high-end lodges, arrives on the workplace as late as 3:00 p.m. or 4:00 p.m., after which locks himself within the boardroom with essential recordsdata — a routine they are saying compromises institutional effectivity and accountability.
They emphasised that the FHA is a nationwide asset, not anybody’s household enterprise, and should not be used as a political battle chest for Ojo’s alleged governorship ambition in Ekiti State.
The assertion learn, “We, the involved Employees, are compelled to write down this open petition to precise our deep concern over the gross abuse of workplace, corruption, and mismanagement being perpetrated by the present Managing Director of the Federal Housing Authority (FHA).
“Since his assumption of workplace, the MD has allegedly remodeled the FHA into a private fiefdom, sidelining the Supervising Minister and different government management.
“He calls himself the “Jagaban boy” and brags about how untouchable he’s, he has the backing of Gbajabiamila and even Tambuwal – a moniker he flaunts to current himself as untouchable and brags about how he’s the in-law of the President, thereby undermining lawful oversight and due course of inside the Authority.
“Beneath his management, the establishment has degenerated right into a theatre of corruption and impunity. It’s alleged that he has strategically positioned people from his ethnic group into key departments, successfully shutting out transparency and institutional stability.
“Most annoying is the restricted entry to essential information rooms by different employees, whereas delicate paperwork are allegedly manipulated to facilitate widespread land grabbing and extortion of property house owners.”
“FHA is a nationwide asset, not anybody’s household enterprise, nor ought to it’s used as a battle chest for Ekiti gubernatorial ambitions,” the employees mentioned.
“We hereby name upon the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to urgently name the MD of FHA to order and provoke a full-scale inquiry into the operations of the FHA beneath his management,” the aggrieved employees mentioned.
“The Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC) to right away launch an investigation into the MD’s monetary dealings, together with property acquisitions, illicit contracts, resort expenditures, and his suspected abuse of land administration processes.
“The Minister of Housing and City Improvement to reassert ministerial oversight and be sure that the FHA is repositioned as a clear and accountable company working for all Nigerians.”
“The longer these actions are delayed, the extra injury is being achieved to the integrity of our public establishments and the rule of legislation. We urge you to behave decisively within the curiosity of justice, accountability, and public belief,” they added.
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