Revealed! Why GEJ sacked 9 ministers

REVEALED: WHY JONATHAN SACKED NINE
MINISTERS

President Goodluck Jonathan sacked nine ministers
yesterday – in a shocking move that sparked
questions on the motive of the action.
Five factors accounted for the ministers’ sack, The
Nation learnt.
According to highly-placed sources in government,
some of the reasons are: non-performance; security
reports on alleged corruption; political allegiance
and doubtful loyalty to the President; poor
management of turn-key projects; and the crisis in
the ruling Peoples Democratic Party(PDP).
A source, who pleaded not to be named because of
the “sensitivity” of the matter, said: “You will recall
that the President asked the ministers to sign a
performance bond. About four of the nine ministers
failed to live up to expectations in the assessment
of the Presidency.
“In fact, three of the ministers were yet to
understand their mandate after being in office for
two and a half years. One of the ministers had more
than 20 agencies under him but his performance
was poor.
“We cannot also rule out alleged corruption acts by
two to three of the ministers. For instance, there is
a particular outgoing minister who forced the
parastatals under the ministry to buy a N17million
Sports Utility Vehicle SUV for personal use.
“The money-spinning parastatals were unhappy but
they had to do it. It also got to a ridiculous extent
that the minister was always asking for remittance
of interest accruable from funds kept in some banks
by parastatals under the ministry.
“Another minister had problems with award of
contracts, some of which were rated as inferior. The
agencies supervised by the minister made a joint
demand for change.
“Ironically, the minister lost a plum cabinet position
at a time a platform was created in a state to fight
political adversaries of Jonathan. The minister was
dazed when the President announced the sack.”
According to a source, there was also the alleged
tardiness in the award of the $1.3billion
(N212billion) Zungeru Hydro Project.
The Federal Government is expected to spend about
N303million in generating one megawatt of
electricity. The hydro project is said to be one of the
most expensive in t