{"id":34953,"date":"2021-05-18T08:45:35","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T07:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=34953"},"modified":"2021-05-18T08:48:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T07:48:03","slug":"keep-telling-lies-but-your-day-of-reckoning-coming-hadiza-tells-binta-garba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/05\/18\/keep-telling-lies-but-your-day-of-reckoning-coming-hadiza-tells-binta-garba\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep telling lies but your day of reckoning coming, Hadiza tells Binta Garba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The suspended managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman has denied allegations levelled by Binta Garba that she resisted inquiries into the finances of the agency.<\/p>\n<p>A former board member of NPA, Garba had alleged that\u00a0Bala Usman influenced her removal as a board member of the NPA after she demanded financial transparency.<\/p>\n<p>Garba, who represented Adamawa north at the senate between 2015 and 2019, also accused Usman of working against the directives of President Muhammadu Buhari and Rotimi Amaech, minister of transportation.<\/p>\n<p>Bala Usman, in a statement on Monday, described Garba\u2019s comments as \u201cspurious and unproved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/05\/17\/breaking-efcc-arrests-ex-kwara-governor-abdulfatah-ahmed-over-fraud-allegations\/\">allegations<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Usman added: \u201cThose who allow themselves to be used to malign innocent people have their own days of reckoning waiting for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApart from the fact that Senator Binta Garba really said nothing substantial, making only spurious, unproved allegations in the statement she issued on Sunday, she also gave herself away as coming to the board of the Nigerian Ports Authority(NPA) to lend herself to the agency of destabilisation rather than contribute to its development,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I say with all emphasis that her allegations of resistant to inquiries on the finances of the NPA are false, I make bold to say that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/04\/22\/nigerian-ports-authority-appoints-four-gms-eight-agms\/\">Authority<\/a> has since 2016, openly exhibited its readiness to be held to public scrutiny by taking the following steps:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSigning of a Memorandum of Understanding with BUdgit Open Budget System Platform and Implementation of a Public Data Dissemination programme.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPublishing the tariff regime of the Authority on the website for the whole world to see in line with the vision of transparency and accountability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConducting the statutory Audit of the backlog of Authority\u2019s financial statements for 2013-2016 and presenting same for approval and submission to the appropriate quarters.<\/p>\n<p>She said the NPA under her leadership engaged international renowned auditing firms for the audit of NPA\u2019s financial statements up until 2019 with full compliance to all Nigerian laws and the International Financial Reporting Standards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 2020 financial statement is currently being audited.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a few questions to ask the Senator: When the Auditors presented the financial statement to the finance committee of which she was a member, did she seek clarifications on areas that seemed opaqued or suspicious? 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