Onagoruwa, BPE DG, sacked

THE presidency, on Tuesday, announced that the Director-General (DG) of the Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE), Ms Bolanle Onagoruwa, has been relieved of her appointment with immediate effect.
A statement signed by Umar Sani, Senior Special Assistant (Media and Publicity) to the Vice-President, directed her to hand over to Mr Benjamin Ezra Dikki, the most senior director in the Bureau, who, it said, would hold the position in acting capacity.
President Goodluck Jonathan, the statement noted, appreciated Ms Onogoruwa “for her services to the nation” and wished her the best in her future endeavours.
Jonathan had, on August 11, 2010 approved her appointment as the substantive DG of BPE, after she had acted in that capacity.
A lawyer by profession and an alumnus of Harvard Business School, Ms Onagoruwa has over 30 years experience in commercial and corporate legal practice and had handled sector reform, restructuring and privati-sation transactions across many sectors in Nigeria.
It will be recalled that the Senate had, in November 2011, approved the report of its ad hoc committee on privatisation and commercialisation, which probed the activities of BPE and recommended the sack of Ms Onagoruwa for what it described as gross incompetence and fraudulent sale of government’s residual shares in Eleme petrochemicals company, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

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