FCT minister fires AEPB Director, Heads of unit, Orders immediate replacement

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Minister for FCT, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello has ordered that the Director of Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB), Baba Shehu Lawan be removed and replaced with Mrs. Oluwatoyin Omolola Olanipekun.

Others fired alongside the Director were heads of Department and Heads of Unit under the Board, with their deputies directed to take over.

Information made available to Factnewsonline, revealed that the Minister made these changes  after he and the FCT Permanent Secretary; Dr. Babatope Ajakaiye met with the former management team of the AEPB.

Sources perceived their sack is related to the N9.8 billion Debt owed AEPB.

The minister in his remarks, warned that all lackadaisical attitudes to work must be stopped forthwith as Abuja must be rid of filth, street beggars, street hawkers and all other environmental nuisances.

However, the sacked management team of the board were reconstituted into a Special Task Force on the Recovery of N9.8 billion Debt owed AEPB by the minister. He(minister) also instructed that the new Task Force be headed by the former Director of the Board and was given 8 weeks to do the recovery into FCT Administration’s coffers.

We also gathered that the Minister approved the appointment of Squadron Leader Abdullahi Adamu Monjel (Retired) to head a special team of 200 security personnel drawn from the Nigeria Police Force and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps to assist in the enforcement of environmental laws in Abuja.

He advised that all new appointees saddled with different responsibilities should conduct their duties within the ambit of the law, adding that his office will not tolerate any act of abuse of fundamental human rights of the residents in the discharge of their duties. He urged them to diligently do their job by following and applying the law and due process.


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