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Home » I Didn’t Disobey Court On INTELS – Suspended NPA Boss

I Didn’t Disobey Court On INTELS – Suspended NPA Boss

·Bala-Usman behind my removal from board ---- Ex-senator

by Joshua
May 17, 2021
in Featured, News

Suspended Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority has denied allegation that she frustrated NPA contractors and caused huge losses in the nation’s maritime sector.

An online newspaper had reported that Bala-Usman worked to frustrate the Integrated Logistics Services Limited and other contractors by revoking their contracts and frustrating their concessions.

The report had said, “Hadiza cancelled INTELS boat service contract in brazen defiance of court orders as part of her selfish plan.

“Although there were court orders restraining the suspended MD from doing so, she ignored them.

“To accomplish her plot, the suspended MD got NPA accuse INTELS of refusing to remit to the Federal Government some service boat pilotage revenue said to be in the firm’s custody amounting to $207,646m (N78.905bn) as at September 30, 2019.”

Bala-Usman said, “Although the story claimed that the alleged frustration was meted out to contractors. It had no other instance to cite than the already overstated and repeatedly explicated case of the Integrated Logistics Services Limited.

“For the sake of the generality of Nigerians, whom I owe an explanation for whatever steps I take in the service of the nation, I presents the truth of the INTELS story as follows:

“Neither I nor the Nigerian Port Authority disobeyed any court order in the matters involving INTELS or any other company for that matter.

“As a corollary to this, there was no court order existing at the time of the expiration of the boat pilotage contract between the NPA and INTELS by on August 8, 2020.

“I should also state that this contract was not terminated

“For the records, INTELS was engaged as managing agents of the authority for oil industry related activities in the compulsory pilotage district within the Exclusive Economic Zone of Nigeria.

“This contract commenced in June 2007 with a review of an extension of 10 years in 2011 to culminate in August 2020.

“The Authority had in 2017, served INTELS with a notice of termination for its refusal to comply with the Treasury Single Account policy of the Federal Government.

“Following the receipt of the termination notice, the company complied with the policy. A supplemental agreement was signed to recognise the compliance to TSA and the notice of termination was accordingly withdrawn.”

She added that in compliance with the Public Procurement Act, the authority in Dec 2019 initiated a public tender process in anticipation of the expiration of the contract in August 2020.

“INTELS, alongside other companies submitted bids to qualify for the tender in line with the criteria spelled out in the public advert.”

INTELS violated one of the criteria advertised for the tender process and was accordingly disqualified, she added.

Meanwhile, a former senator, Binta Garba, has accused a former managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority of masterminding her removal from the board of the authority.

She said, “I was appointed into the board of the Nigerian Ports Authority sometime in March 2020. In January 2021, Sen. John Akpanudoedehe and I were removed from the board and our removal was clearly orchestrated by the now-suspended MD of NPA, Hadiza Bala-Usman.

“Before my removal, I was not comfortable with the way the board and authority were run. I consistently expressed my discomfort and displeasure with the way the MD was running the place and this, I have no iota of doubt in my mind, made her orchestrate my removal from the board.

“I was removed without the knowledge of the supervising ministry/Minister of Transportation, which was very uncommon.

“My observations and complaints with the suspended NPA MD were more with the financial statements of NPA and I worried that if she continued so, there would certainly be trouble and her sudden removal (suspension) would be inevitable.

“I noted discrepancies, I raised observations. I asked questions but I was completely ignored and disregarded. Answers were never provided until my removal was plotted.

“When the board came in, its first meeting was in June 2020 with the aim of deliberating on the financial report. I made some observations on the report which, obviously, the MD, Hadiza Bala Usman, was not comfortable with.”


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