President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has ordered the immediate removal of Mr.
Imam Kashim from the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Federal Road Maintenance Agency.
This comes just a week after President Tinubu announced the appointment of a 24-year-old first-class mechanical engineering graduate from the University of Brighton in the United Kingdom to the leadership position.
In a statement signed by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, and released on Thursday, President Tinubu ordered the withdrawal of the nomination of 24-year-old Imam Kashim Imam , effective immediately.
Recall that the President reconstituted last Friday the board of directors and management of FERMA for a renewable four-year term and appointed chairman of the board Imam, son of politics Borno-born scholar Kashim Ibrahim-Imam, candidate for president.
He served as governor of his state on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party in 2003 and 2007, but lost both candidates to Chief Ali Modu of the All Nigeria People’s Party.
According to reports, Thursday’s removal of Imam Kashim follows harsh criticism from some Nigerians who claimed that the fired Ferma chairman, despite graduating with first class honors in his field, did not have prior professional experience and are therefore not qualified for this position.
However, President Tinubu has not yet announced a replacement for this position.
The statement read: “The withdrawal of the said nomination is ordered with immediate effect.
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“All other appointments to the Board of Directors and the FERMA management team are not affected by this directive.
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Meanwhile, the Kaduna State Police Command has confirmed the brutal killing of a member of the National Youth Service Corps, Grace Chalya Silas, by yet to be identified assailants in ‘State.
In a statement issued on Thursday, the Command spokesperson, ASP Mansir Hassan, said the state Commissioner of Police, CP Musa Yusuf Garba, has launched a manhunt for the killers of the city.
Corps member serving his mandatory one-year national service in the section indicating when the incident occurred.
Chalya Silas was said to have been stabbed to death on Wednesday while she was out for a morning jog in Barnawa, Kaduna South Local Government Area of ​​the state.
After the incident, the deceased’s friends and University of Jos classmates took to Facebook to remember her.
One of them, Comfort Elisha, wrote on his Facebook account: “No na.
What is really going on with Jossite and the special education department?
We are not done mourning Kekefas Emmanuel, and now Chalya, brutally killed in Kaduna while on his morning jog while serving his motherland.
May your murderers not know the peace of Chalya.
It’s too hard to bear.
However, ASP Mansir Hassan, Public Relations Officer of Kaduna Command, while confirming the incident to journalists, described the death of the Corps member as “tragic”.
Hassan said the Commissioner of Police, CP Musa Yusuf Garba, after an emergency meeting with the high command, ordered the Barnawa Divisional Police Officer and his operatives to retrieve the body parts of murderers.
A police spokesman said: “This is a very tragic incident.
She was jogging (exercising) early in the morning when some thugs (phone thieves) on motorbikes rushed at her.
“The victim’s name is Grace Chalya Silas.
She is a member of the Corps serving in Kaduna South.
“When the incident was reported to the police, officers responded quickly and arrived at the crime scene, where they found the victim lying in a pool of his own blood.
She was taken to the clinic, where she was later pronounced dead.
“Since the incident was reported to the police, the Kaduna State Commissioner of Police, CP Musa Yusuf Garba, has held an emergency meeting with higher command on the matter.
We have contacted NYSC in the state.
“The CP has ordered the Barnawa DPO and the Area Commander to immediately hunt down the murderers of Corps members and trace the perpetrators of this dastardly act.
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