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Threatens Court action over allegations
The Registrar of Chartered Institute Project Managers of Nigeria (CIPMN), Hajiya Hajara Yusuf, said she has never received any money since federal government reforms of the agency.
Speaking to our reporter yesterday in Abuja, the Registrar also threatened court action within seven days if allegations of corruption against her were not withdrawn.
“I will also like to state that since I came to the Ministry, I have not received a kobo, neither has any staff here as far as I know.
“I for one is on pro Bono, and all the people I met here have said they are on same. But I don’t know maybe the story is different from Henry Mbadiwe since he hijacked the entire structure both Administrative and Financial.
“As for Mrs Okoronkwo, if she doesn’t retract the statement on my person that I was lured to the Ministry and other allegations in 7 days, she will go to Court and provide due Evidence.
“I would like to say while I was with Madam Okoronkwo as a Registrar, I was just a dummy of a Registrar. I only signed Certificates and nothing more.I has to fight at the venue of Induction in December 2021 to be allowed to carry out my duty of presenting Inductees for Induction.
“All administrative duties were carried out between Madam and Mr Sunday Olisemeke, the Deputy Registrar Admin . The Register was only given to me after a fierce battle between Jamilu Yankwashi and Mrs. Okoronkwo when he threatened to sue her over this in July 2022.
“I am stating this so you see that Mrs Okoronkwo just wanted to use me thinking I was a fool and never ran the Institute as a public organization. She said I was lured because of the misconception she had of my person. I never wanted to add problems to the already hot pot scenario between her and Dr. Yankwashi. This I did in good faith, not because I didn’t know what I was doing.”
On how she got to the Ministry arm of the Institute, she said
“when the Federal Government dissolved the Council, Madam made us(members of Council) believe they scraped the entire structure. At that time my thought was Government never works like that, but then I kept my cool.
“If you ask all the members of the dissolved Council, they will attest to you that Mrs. Okoronkwo never presented the Correspondence she got from the Ministry over Council dissolution and appointment of Sole Administrator. Me as the Registrar I have never seen it, even as I write, and they fraudulently took my name to Court as the plaintiff.
“As the Registrar I do not know anything about the Finances of the Institute, I have never even seen a salary schedule before, all financial matters are handled between Mrs. Okoronkwo, Mr. Olisemeke and the Accountant.
“Now if Federal Government did not scrap the Institute, only dissolved the Council, why do you have to use the Office of the Registrar to go and file a case in Court? Why not any member of the dissolved Council. Why involve the Institute and use her funds, which where totally in Mrs.Okoronkwos grasp.
“When I got to the Ministry and found out the truth, I wrote to the then Minister and he graciously instructed that some persons sit with me and do the needful. Collate all members and align the Register.
“Before I wrote the notice to Members last year, I wrote to the Lawyer to do what is right and take that case out of Court. He wrote back telling me I was not the person who authorized him to Institute that suit but the Council.
“The question is , which Council? As at the time he claimed the Council instructed him, they stood dissolved, and it is clear why my Office and name was dragged in, because even the President would have been going to Court in an individual capacity.
“It is very unfortunate that after all Government did to salvage the Institute, Henry Ifeanyi Mbadiwe decided to cause more confusion over here by refusing the Institute to move forward. He is the Registrar Regulations but he ended up confusing the Council and dividing it.
“I came on board by mutual consent and agreement which was supposed to help move the Institute forward, as per the bifurcation of the Institute
“If not for that mutual agreement, I cannot be Registrar of any arm. I am the Registrar, my name is in Court as Registrar CIPMN, I have a document from the Former SGF Mr. Boss Mustapha addressing me as such even months after the Sole Admin was appointed, and as I speak I am the custodian of the CIPMN Register. So if the Council decide to renegade on the structure that brought them on board and the mutual agreement reached, I AM THE REGISTRAR, not Henry Mbadiwe. Which document made him Registrar? How do you appoint another Registrar when you have a sitting Registrar.
“Don’t forget, even the Sole Administrator while leaving Office, handed over to Akinola Babalola as the Acting Registrar not Registrar, because she was aware that there was a sitting Registrar.
“The only way Henry can be Registrar is if he is reappointed after the position was vacant. And he can only be appointed by a legitimate Council.
“I remain the legitimate Registrar of CIPMN , the truth is that I am committed to the Reforms put in place by the Federal Government through the FMITI.
“Whatever the case may be, I stand in my truth, I will not compromise my stand, and my stand is let us do the right thing join hands with Government and do the right thing to set the Institute on the right track.
“Those in the Ministry have told us, they have done what they need to do and have returned the Institute back to the members, it is left for us to do the right thing and rescue the Institute. The road to this is very straightforward and not complicated. We are committed and will work with all like minds to achieve the set goals.
“As for Mrs Okoronkwo s claims that I was lured to be a part of the Ministry faction, as far as I am concerned, the factionalization we are talking about is as regard the Council. The Institute is unaffected, the Register is intact, Government has instructed free revalidation exercise, so as to align all members. We will commence the revalidation as instructed in due course and await the Council(s) to sought itself out.”
