Buhari Must Punish Sacked NYSC DG – Group
- Demands salaries’ refund since 2020
BY EDMOND ODOK – The Concerned Citizens Forum (CCF) has insisted that President Muhammed Buhari must punish the immediate past Director General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Mohammed K Fadah, to serve as a deterrent to other public officeholders.
According to the CCF, the disgraced Fadah must also return all the salaries and allowances he received as NYSC Chief Executive as well as the Nigerian Army since October 2020.
The National President and Convener of CCF, Musa M. Attah, who addressed a press conference in Abuja, said there is no backing down on its earlier written petition demanding the sack of General Fadah for gross incompetence and abuse of office.
The Group accused Fadah of not only being unqualified for the job, but also displaying gross ineptitude during the six months period that he ran the affairs as NYSC boss.
Attah told journalists that CCF finds it shocking that rather than seeking legal representation to aid the disgraced General reduce whatever sentence would come his way from a possible trial in court, certain groups are shamelesly “alleging that people conspired against him to have him booted out of office”.
He said; “For history not to be distorted in favour of lawbreakers, it is pertinent to remind Nigerians, particularly the Yobe Elders Forum that President Muhammadu Buhari fired Brigadier General M. K Fadah owing to gross incompetence, which we reasonably believe stemmed from his lack of qualification to have occupied the post in the first place.
“In addition, the criminal component of Fadah’s six months in that capacity has to do with his falsification and forgery of credentials, age falsification, evasion of the mandatory one-year youth service, and misrepresentation of facts as to his competence to be in the Nigerian Army and subsequently occupy the position of NYSC DG.
“Arising from the recalcitrance exhibited by Yobe Elders Group in attempting to paint a man who committed fraud as the victim, the Concerned Citizens Forum, which is the group that wrote the earlier petition to Mr. President to expose Brigadier General Mohammed K Fadah for parading forged credentials, evading National Youth Service as well as age falsification, hereby warns the so-called elders to immediately stop ruffling feathers or else we will release even more damaging information that would guarantee their paymaster a long residency in jail.
“They should take it that Brigadier General MK Fadah was responsible for his own downfall as he could have lived a controversy-free life as a storekeeper, herder, artisan, farmer, or any other occupation that does not require advanced credential or mandatory national youth service.
“Even after using false credentials, falsified age, and non-participation in national youth service to secure a job in the Nigerian Army and attaining the position of NYSC DG, he could have at the very least developed the competence needed to thrive in that position. Instead, Fadah’s performance was so dismal in that position that he sent the scheme into decline in a matter of six months.
“We nonetheless have our demands in the interest of justice and fairness. We demand that Gen MK Fadah be made to refund all earnings and allowances he got as the Director General of NYSC, the same having been obtained fraudulently.
“We further demand that Fadah returns all salaries and emoluments he has received from the Nigerian Army since October 2020 having turned 60 years old at the time since he was born in October 1960. The Nigerian Army must similarly adjust Fadah’s rank commensurate with his actual qualifications and compute his due cumulative salary on this basis while asking him to refund the deferential he earned with rank acquired with the forged credentials.”
Maintaining that public officers must always bear the consequences of their actions, the group further said; “As we insist that there must be consequences for Fadah’s fraud against Nigeria, the Concerned Citizens Forum shall continue to monitor the situation to ensure he pays for his crime against Nigerians, especially those who comply with the law of the land.”
“The NYSC Scheme is too central to Nigeria’s unity and social cohesion for a fraud to have led it even for six months”, the CCF posited
