{"id":5179,"date":"2024-01-08T21:41:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T21:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=5179"},"modified":"2024-01-08T21:41:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T21:41:26","slug":"tinubu-sacks-bpe-fccpc-chiefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2024\/01\/08\/tinubu-sacks-bpe-fccpc-chiefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Sacks BPE, FCCPC Chiefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">President Bola Tinubu on Monday sacked the Executive Vice Chairman and CEO of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, Babatunde Irukera, and the Director-General\/CEO of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, Mr Alexander Okoh with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A statement signed by Tinubu\u2019s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, revealed that Monday\u2019s dismissals are \u201cin conformity with plans to restructure and reposition critical agencies of the Federal Government towards protecting the rights of Nigerian consumers and providing a strong basis for enhanced contributions to the nation\u2019s economy by key growth-enabling institutions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The statement is titled \u2018President Tinubu dismisses two chief executive officers.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Irekura and Okoh\u2019s sack comes just hours after the President suspended the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, over widespread anger emanating from an alleged misappropriation of N585m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ngelale noted that the \u201ctwo dismissed Chief Executives are directed to hand over to the next most senior officer in their respective agencies, pending the appointment of new Chief Executive Officers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As of the time of filing this report, the President\u2019s spokesperson, Ngelale, could not be reached for comments on the reasons for their sack.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Tinubu on Monday sacked the Executive Vice Chairman and CEO of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5181,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179\/revisions\/5181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}