Financial Misappropriation: Congress To Inaugurate New Ethics Committee For Edo NUJ

The Edo state council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ will on Tuesday March 13 inaugurate her newly reconstituted ethics and disciplinary committee with five new members.

Chaired by Simon Osagie of Merit Chapel, the committee replaces a similar one which was disbanded by the Congress of the Union over a shoddy job last year.

The committee was inaugurated a few weeks ago by Sir Roland Osakue, acting on the orders of the National NUJ President, with Mr Aliu Ozioruva, and other members of the State Council Exco present.

Its mandate is to investigate how the former Correspondents Chapel Exco led by Simon Ebegbulem mismanaged the sum of N4.5million realized at the 2017 Correspondents Forum, where Governor Godwin Obaseki delivered a lecture.

The committee which has received series if petitions from journalists, will be confronted with information such as the claim by the chapel that it paid  N800, 000 for the venue of the event whereas, the politician who owns it gave it free to the chapel.

Recall that the former committee chaired by Hameed Braimah of Observer chapel ran into troubled waters while investigating the action of former secretary of tbe Union, Mr Aliu Ozioruva and 8 others in sharing the sum of N5-million belonging to the Union.

Without seeing the Edo state government voucher upon which the 9 claimed the money was paid to them as Friends of Oshiomhole and ignoring vital evidence, the former committee’s recommendations fell short of Congress expectations and so was dissolved.