N5 Million fraud: Edo NUJ dissolve and reject Ethics Committee report

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THE Congress of the NUJ in Benin City held on Tuesday which had in attendance the CPS to the deputy governor, Mr Musa dissolved and rejected the report of its Ethics and Disciplinary Committee.

The standing committee investigated the 9 suspended journalists accused of conspiring to steal N5million out of the N10million approved for empowerment of journalists working outside the Governor's office by the Edo state government.

The congress rejected the report because some members felt the committee went contrary to mandate amidst allegations that its members may have compromised.

Congress was expected to ratify the report before sending it to the National Secretariat but Congress asked that a new Committee be set up to complete the work already started while the 9 remain indefinitely suspended and barred from entering the NUJ Press Center, chapel office or attending any NUJ event.

The congress was told that the committee could not get the Edo government voucher with which the money was paid even as the recipients of the money admitted that they actually collected the money adding that it was initially meant for four of them but that they co-opted 5 others.

Although the 6 of the 9 summoned appeared before it, with one insulting the Committee chairman for daring to invite him,  while another sent a sms that he had nothing to say, they all failed to show how the money was meant for them by their testimonies.

Congress was convinced that the failure of the government to release the voucher when in fact the chief of staff to the Governor Obaseki promised on a visit to the NUJ that he was disappointed at the attitude of the 9 and pledged to get them to refund the money was in bad faith.

Congress frowned at the committee's failure to note the pleas of one of the 9 in an audio tape of a phone recording where he pleaded with a senior colleague for mercy as well as the attitude of  CPS Musa, a former National Vice President for coming to the Congress with armed policemen as it amounted to harassing hapless colleagues.

Signed
Roland Osakue, Chairman
Fred Emokpae, Acting Secretary

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