Jonathan Fires BPE Boss, Bolanle Onagoruwa

President Goodluck Jonathan  today sacked the embattled Director General of the Bureau for Public Enterprises, BPE, Bolanle Onagoruwa.

The sack was revealed in a terse statement signed by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the Vice President, Umar Sani.

There were no reasons given for the relieving Ms. Onagoruwa of her functions at the BPE.

The statement reads, “The Director General of the Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE), Ms. Bolanle Onogoruwa, has been relieved of her appointment with immediate effect. She is to hand over to the most Senior Director in the Bureau, Mr. Benjamin Ezra Dikki, who is to hold the position in an acting capacity.

“Mr. President extends his sincere appreciation to Ms. Bolanle Onogoruwa for her services to the nation and wishes her the best in her future endeavours.”

Ms. Onagoruwa has been in the eye of the storm for a long time over the discharge of her duties as the head of the privatisation agency.

The Senate ad-hoc committee that investigated the privatisation and commercialisation of public companies between 1999 and 2011 had last year recommended her immediate sack from office.

She was accused of “gross incompetence in the management of the BPE” as well as the “illegal and fraudulent sale of the five per cent Federal Government’s shares in the Eleme Petrochemical Company Limited, EPCL.”