Abuja – Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami used armed security men to eject NIDCOM from the offices which they occupied in the NCC building located at Mbora District, on the Airport Road, Jabi, Abuja, Chairman, Nigerians in the Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has said.
Abike maintained that over 40 office equipment, workstations and files belonging to NIDCOM staff were still locked up at the Nigeria Communications Commission building, four months after the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Mr Isa Pantami allegedly ordered NIDCOM to be evicted.
Meanwhile, the Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC) spokesman, Dr Henry Nkemadu, who denied the claim, said the minister could not have ordered the eviction of the commission’s staff.
He said the NCC had not withdrawn the offer for the commission to use a space in its complex.
“The fifth floor allocated to NIDCOM had to be used to accommodate other departments from the NCC headquarters to ease congestion.
“The NCC has not withdrawn the offer but had hiccups arising from the preparation for the visit of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) to inaugurate the building and other projects relating to the mandate of government.”
Reacting, NIDCOM in a statement, by its spokesman, Abdulrahman Balogun, dismissed the NCC claims, noting that over 40 office equipment belonging to its staff were carted away from the NCC building shortly after it was evicted.
According to NIDCOM, the missing items, it said, include two units of single face data ports; 24 port patch panel; Mikrotik RB 750G router; Mikrotik cloud router switch; two Headsets with microphones; two Digital PABX; 4u Server racks; Patch cables; HP desk jet 1012 all in one printer, files and documents.
