Hadiza has threatened to sue over an internet smear campaign

Hadiza Bala Usman, the Nigerian Ports Authority’s (NPA) suspended managing director, has threatened to sue over a series of ‘false’ online postings against her.
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Bala Usman, who was suspended following a cold war with Rotimi Amaechi, the minister of transportation, complained about the distribution of ‘false and rehashed reports geared at maligning my personality and casting aspersions on my reputation and service to the nation’ in a statement released over the weekend.

A claim that she was indicted for unapproved N831million spent on hotels in 2016,2017 was a continuation of the ‘relentless war’ being fought against her personality for reasons best known to them, Bala Usman said.

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“The fact is that the NPA has its audited financial statements for the years 2016, 2017 and 2018. These statements have the authentic figures of the Authority’s expenditure over those years,” she said, maintaining that snapshots of “unauthenticated” documents being circulated were being used to fit the “already concocted and devious narratives that they love to sell to the public”.

She also denied erecting a structure in Zaria while serving as NPA MD, and challenged her accusers to present any evidence linking her to the structure.