The Presidential Committee on North-East (PCNI) has sacked its Borno Manager, Mr. Kyari Pindar Mshelia, over an allegation that he blew the whistle on the diversion of relief items and educational materials meant for schools in the North-East.
Kyari Mshelia, who is PCNI’s Program Manager, is, however, not responsible for exposing the latest scandal of materials’ diversion by senior PCNI officials.
He had, however, previously, through official channels raised concerns on corrupt and fraudulent activities at the Federal Government inaugurated humanitarian agency.
Kyari and one other staff were wrongly fingered by top management staff of PCNI of being the source of leaked information on corrupt practices in the agency.
The PCNI Director of Administration, Hajiya Amina Maibe was allegedly linked to the diversion of educational materials supplied for teachers and students of some selected secondary schools in Borno.
The development resulted in a protest by a group of teachers at Government Secondary School Maiduguri last week.
Meanwhile, Prof. Hauwa Biu, PCNI member at a meeting with staff in Maiduguri said the Presidency was disturbed about the scandal and that police have been mandated to launch an investigation into the matter, as well as to identify the school principals and teachers who led the demonstrations and also fish out the staff who exposed the incident.
Subsequently, Mr. Tijjani Tumsa, PCNI Vice Chairman, who is an in-law to Hajiya Maibe, stormed Maiduguri on Friday and after an emergency meeting to resolve the case, swiftly dismissed Kyari on suspicion of leaking the scandals in the agency to the media.
He also ordered him to delete all documents in his laptop and hand over PCNI’s properties in his possession to the Administrative Director.
Meanwhile, another officer, Ibrahim Goni Machina was spared as he was only given a warning.
