Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has alerted President Bola Tinubu of a sinister plot to emasculate a federal authorities company, the Tasks Growth Institute, PRODA, Enugu.
The Igbo group raised the alarm at a press convention in Abuja on Thursday, the place it mentioned these behind the transfer had been hiding below a doctored Oronsaye Report to hold out their evil agenda.
Nationwide President of the Ohanaeze Youths, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, who was flanked by different exco members of the organisation, urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to be cautious of these hellbent on destroying his authorities.
He mentioned consistent with the Oronsaye Report, what PRODA deserved was correct funding with the intention to perform its statutory mandate.
Okwu acknowledged that PRODA has been as much as its accountability, stressing that “anybody unsure is free to go to the place.”
He mentioned they had been bowled over “by a current doctored report planted by fifth columnists, by which they listed the Challenge Growth Institute, PRODA, Enugu, as one of many companies of presidency to be merged or scrapped.
“We acquired this with nice consternation and shock contemplating the clear provisions of the Oronsaye Report, in addition to the report by the then Secretary to the Authorities of the Federation, which shaped the Authorities White Paper.
“The SGF report titled: “RE: RESTRUCTURING & RATIONALISATION OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PARASTATALS, COMMISSIONS AND AGENCIES”, clearly supplies in Merchandise D that: ‘The Authorities accepts the advice that: a) NASENI and NCAM be merged however with the exclusion of FIIRO and PRODA.”
“With the above, one then wonders the intent and drive of these behind the listing being circulated within the media house.
“A bit look into historical past exhibits that PRODA was a creation of the defunct East Central State Authorities. It was created by an edict in 1971.
“It was charged with the broad perform of producing and catalysing industrialization by finishing up industrial analysis from the laboratory stage to the pilot plant stage and by rendering consultancy companies to the Governments, industries and people.
“PRODA is likely one of the oldest analysis establishments below the Federal Ministry of Science and Expertise.
“When the East Central State was cut up in 1976, the Federal Authorities acknowledged the necessity to not balkanize PRODA by the rising states and therefore took it over as a Federal Authorities Analysis Institute.
“Ever since then, PRODA has developed below completely different leaderships, experiencing neglect from one time to the opposite.
“Nevertheless, inside the previous couple of years, like a human being who miraculously got here out of coma, PRODA once more grew to become a cynosure of all eyes, with quite a lot of reforms being initiated to take it again to the glory days.”
He expressed fear that “the identical individuals who held PRODA down over time are at it once more.
“This time, they need to kill it fully for a motive greatest identified to them, however positively not in nationwide curiosity.
“Their solely curiosity is that something related to Ndigbo should not be allowed to outlive. These are individuals who really feel that the civil battle has not ended and that something sited in Igbo land should be emasculated.
“They profess one Nigeria however their actions present a completely completely different factor.
“They have a tendency to overlook that PRODA is just not serving Igboland however the nation, and has been clearly positioned to take analysis and improvement to a different degree.
“Nigeria is a nation that completely will depend on importation with out producing something, and that is the bane of the economic system. Beneath such circumstances, an company like PRODA deserves all the eye and funding it might get.
“We, subsequently, warn these doctoring the Oronsaye Report back to preserve PRODA away from their evil agenda, as any try to implement the compromised model wouldn’t augur nicely. Sufficient of this humiliation and insult to the sensibilities of Ndigbo.
“The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council gave President Bola Tinubu their whole help in the course of the presidential election and would need the president to succeed. Nevertheless, he needs to be cautious of these planting seeds of discord and dealing arduous to discredit the federal government.
“We urge Mr President to discard the doctored report and keep on with the unique model as contained within the SGF’s letter, dated April 8, 2014.”
The Igbo group reaffirmed their unflinching help to Mr President “as he navigates the nation out of the current financial disaster.
“Certainly, this administration shall succeed to the disgrace of naysayers,” Okwu declared.
