OpEd: The Abba Kyari I knew By Sesugh Akume | Sahara Reporters ...This choice was driven by hubris, and arrogant impunity driven by an assurance that as long as one is the good graces of their boss, they are invincible. READ MORE:
I knew Abba Kyari. No, we didn't school together at St Paul's Zaria, Warwick or Cambridge. We didn't work in the same law firm or media house, never exchanged text messages, nor did he buy me books. He wasn't my bestman nor my children's godfather. No, we weren't friends, nor served on the same boards, we never worked as colleagues, ever. I didn't know him 4 decades ago, but from September 2015 when he was appointed chief of staff to the president.
He was on the board of Nigeria's ATM, the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation -- the country's darkest, most opaque and unaccountable corporation -- whilst serving as chief of staff to the president, in gross violation of the NNPC Act, section 2 to be precise. He was sitting on a board of a company whose chairman and group managing director reported to him, anyway. This is gross abuse is unprecedented.
A letter he wrote to the National Assembly, not on behalf of anybody but for himself, is in the public domain. All comunications from the executive to the legislature should be by the secretary to the government of the federation , certainly NOT the chief of staff. He had no such power but usurped and abused it. In the said letter, he gleefully announced that the minister of health reported a matter to him.
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