From UBONG UKPONG, Abuja
Federal Government, yesterday ordered the Comptroller General of Immigration (CGI), Rose Chinyere Uzoma, to proceed on pre-retirement leave, just as it directed that Deputy Comptroller General (DCG), Rilwan Bala Musa, takes over in acting capacity.
The order for her to step aside was contained in a press release in Abuja, signed by the Director/Secretary of the Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration and Prisons Board (CDFIPB), Dr. R. K Attahiru. The statement read: “ I am directed to convey approval of His Excellency, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, for you ( Mrs. Rose Chinyere Uzoma) to proceed on your pre-retirement accumulated leave.
“I am to further convey that you are to hand over the duties and responsibilities of your office on January, Wednesday 16, 2013 to the most senior Deputy Comptroller General of Immigration in the person of Rilwan Bala Musa MNI, who will act as Comptroller General of Immigration pending the appointment of a substantive CG of Immigration. “On behalf of the minister of Interior and all members of the board, I wish to thank you for your service to Nigeria. The board wishes you good luck in your future endeavour.”
Daily Sun learnt that Uzoma was actually due for retirement in March and was making preparations to leave after March, if she could not secure extension. However, this it was learnt, came as a political shocker to her as she merely was given few hours to handover everything pertaining to her office in her possession to her successor, indicating that she had actually been sent packing.
Relieving her of her duties came shortly after a running battle between her and the Interior Minister, Patrick Abba Moro, who is also chairman of the board. The embattled CGI was alleged to have clashed with her boss severally over recruitment exercise by the service, which at some point late last year was nullified and declared illegal when it took off. However, when contacted, the service Public Relations Officer, Joachim Olumba said it was normal in civil service for people to proceed on pre-retirement leave, which usually lasted three months into the retirement month of the retiring personnel.
But Boskel, I will advise that this is an out-right ‘forced retirement’ there is no society(sociological) grammer to over-ride the ‘memo’ from the Feds.It is Nigeria-africa.It looks like when Abacha and the rest of juntas were ruling,That’s how they (juntas) retire people that get on their nerves.It’s humiliating, degrading, etc.
I wish the no-good GEJ. had used another way to retire the lady than humiliating her with forced retirement and on local journals.
my prayer is that all of this will be for good
Datz aberrant,abhorrent and abasin of her.anyways dats naija for u
I see no good in such hasty retirement and handover. It does not help continuty as a day is not ideal for proper and tidy handover. The govt should be patriotic and stop witch hunting if we must move forward.
President GEJ has continued to use the Igbos as a escapegoat of his administration. That is height of ingratitude. It has become a pattern in this government that all they need to get an Igbo out of any office is to level some spurious allegation against the person and the next the person will be sacked, where as when such is made against anyone from the North, the President will look the other way. Remember 2015 is around the corner, we shall meet again, we will hold you accountable for all your failed promises. The other time, It was IGP Onovo, followed by Nnaji, and Now Rose Uzoma, we will remind you of this when the time comes, since sacrifying Igbos to please the abokis has become your stock in trade, lets see where it will take you.
Perfect analysis, i will also add to the list the former interior minister Iheanacho
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Who so ever that is the hindrance to the nation’s progress may God do same sanitation in such area, For you can’t eat your cake and have it well i consider this one as the colap of the wall of Jericho.
We all know that GEJ always use the Igbos as Scapegoat to please his masters.
At any slightest issue he will fire them and replace with the Northerners.Just to please them.
I don’t think that he can do that to the Northerners. Why not leave the Woman to finish her term?
What did she do that is more than what others from the other regions are doing?
Igbos should use their teeth to count their tongue and know that there’s nothing like One Nigeria here.
Igbos should try and unite and speak with one voice,bcus they need to put a stop to all these rubbish they’re suffering in this country.
I HOPE IN 2015 VICE PRESIDENT NAMADI SAMBO WILL NOT AMEND HIS NAME TO NNAMDI SAMBO IN OTHER TO WIN ELECTION WITH IGBO VOTES… JUST LIKE EBELEMI TURNED OUT TO BE EBELE… . NDI-IGBO SHOULD KNOW THAT IGBOS ARE THE BIGGEST TREASURE IN NIGERIA ,FAR MORE PRECIOUS THAN THE OIL EVERYBODY IS TALKING ABOUT… THE TRUTH IS THAT THE IGBO IS THE REAL TREASURE IN NIGERIA THATS WHY EVERYONE IS FIGHTING TOOTH AND NAIL TO HAVE THEM BEFORE TALKING OF OIL. CAN THE IGBOS UNDERSTAND THIS AND PRESERVE THEIR TREASURE WHICH IS SIMPLY IGBOS THEMSELVES ? THE DAY THE IGBOS REALIZE THIS..FROM THAT MOMENT FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA WILL BE LOYAL TO THEM …
You people should stop this rubbish about GEJ using Ndigbo as scapegoat. Personnally, I do not see any injustice here. The report said the woman has some accumulated leave which she should exhaust before going in March and March is just 2 months away. The problem with Nigerians is that they don’t like going into retirement even when they are due for it.
You missed the point completely, she was kicked out.They should have sent her a letter reminding her of the retirement date and the accumulated leave to exhaust and wait for her reply before taking this step; this is called due process. A tipical example of due process is the way the recent retirement was carried out in the nig army. we are not doing ourselves any good by denying what is very evident . Remember how the former IG Onovo was dismissed ,the sacking of former minister Nnaji, and how the South-east consortium lost out in the recent power plant biding.Remember also that GEJ recalled a police commissioner who was sacked by OBJ and was not recalled by Yar Adua and who later aided the escape of Kabiru sokoto from detention. GEJ didnot hate igbos but he is trying to please the Hausa-Fulani elite using our highly placed citizens as shock absorber.
Onyeoma ur a stupid he goat. Wht do u knw abt civil service& nigeria politics? Dnt u knw wht trespassd b4 she was finaly named d compt gen. as d most senior officer? Some of u jst make hasty comments wtout indept knowlegd of wht it at stake. D igbos no doubt has become victms of GEJ quick sack wtout due consultatn bcos we dnt take wht ought to be taken serious serious! Take a look at other parastatals n show me who have been given unceremonial retirement like d igbo. ‘Tmrw is another’ is now my new name.
pls can somebody tell me why the CBN governor has intentionally withdraw the circulation of small denomination in the country.(5, 10, 20, 50.) since his agenda was suspended there is massive scarce of these denominations in circulation. i feel he is indirectly achieving his aim. pls help me cry aloud over these issue. this is already having adverse effect on the prices of household items.
ONYEOMA YOU ARE A GOAT, I WU EWU, IF AS OF YOUR AGE YOU CAN NOT USE YOUR TONGUE AND COUNT YOUR TEETH YOU SUPPOSE TO KNOW THAT YOU’RE A BIG FOOL. IS IT WEN YOU SACK WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT YOU WILL KNOW THAT THEY HAVE SACK THE WOMAN ?, FROM NWODO,ONOVU,NNAJI AND ROSE, WHAT IS HIS PROBLEM ?
ONYEOMA YOU ARE A GOAT, I WU EWU, IF AS OF YOUR AGE YOU CAN NOT USE YOUR TONGUE AND COUNT YOUR TEETH YOU SUPPOSE TO KNOW THAT YOU’RE A BIG FOOL. IS IT WEN YOU HEAR SACK WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT YOU WILL KNOW THAT THEY HAVE SACK THE WOMAN ?, FROM NWODO,ONOVU,NNAJI AND ROSE, WHAT IS HIS PROBLEM ?
This government sacked Captain Iheanacho former minister of Interior, Ogbonaya Onovo former I.G of Police, Prof Barth Nnaji for Min. Of Power and now Mrs Rose Uzoma Comptroller General of custom all from the east. What do u have to say? Pls my people comment on this issue
its just amazing how she was sacked wihout any commendations of her good work after all this year in service. thats really shows the level and the standard in which the president and cabinet ministers runs the nation. more so anyone given gorvernment appointment according to our culture must be influential,and must be subjected to licking the ass of people at the top to get what you want.counties that runs like that is going no where in terms of economic and infrasructures, because all they do is fixing instead of looking for genuine qualification. i hope jonathan as a president would be able to shift his focus if truly he want to move the country forward.
She has accumulated leave, many workers and serving public office holders do not want to leave juicy portfolios.
She has served the nation and due for retirement. She should go.
If she does not go how then will the younger generation find work?
Please many of our grandfathers are still occupying positions that should be occupied by younger minds and guys.
I feel pained by the fact that victims of this sort of executive hammer never gets the opportunity to air their own side of the story.What was the battle about ?How true is the picture being painted by the high and mighty in this case.I just pray that she has been justifiably retired.God Bless Nigeria.
Excessive Love for money has ruin the Igbo race. It’s a pity. An aboki on that seat wil employ a felow cow from another state without a kobo. But an Igbo can sell an appointment letter to his son. It’s a shame.
The last thing GEJ can afford is losing igbo block votes if he indeed really want to take another shot at the presidency 2015. I think he has not considered how we feel about this hasty actions regarding the removal of few igbos in the helm of affairs in the country
I think Igbos should just follow the northerners to share this Ijaw people oil. Boko haram had been killing my people because of him and his busy disgracing us out of office. 2015 Will explain it all.
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Bcos any Igbo in position of authority misbehave a lot&try to Igbolize all the appointment of their office,eg Nigerian brewery,immigration etc,am nt tribalistic,bt just sayg d truth,if i offend anyone,pls forgive me&check your fact well
Mr Biggie small, ideed big for nothing.
Look at your analogy…Nigerian brewery, Immigration…..
For the less educated, different standards of appointments goes for this two group. One is private corporate organisation- nigerian brewerey…they look for talent, experience et’l, and are mostly free to hire and fire as so wish. The other is federal civil service…Senioirty mostly is a guiding factor. I did not think it was hard understanding the two, until I read your diatribe. Not too late to go back to school…economics 101. Got it!?