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From: tunji okegbola <tunjiokegbola@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: "FOIcoalition@yahoogroups.com" <FOIcoalition@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Wednesday, October 9, 2013 8:25 AM
To: "FOIcoalition@yahoogroups.com" <FOIcoalition@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [FOIcoalition] PPDC drags NNPC to court over disregard for FOI Act - Nigerian Tribune
Reply-To: "FOIcoalition@yahoogroups.com" <FOIcoalition@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Wednesday, October 9, 2013 8:25 AM
To: "FOIcoalition@yahoogroups.com" <FOIcoalition@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [FOIcoalition] PPDC drags NNPC to court over disregard for FOI Act - Nigerian Tribune
DEMOLITION OF IMO STATE LIBRARY
Dear Colleagues,
Pleased be informed that the Governor of Imo state, is set to demolish the only library serving the entire state in the state Capital, Owerri.
The newly refurbished Library was built in 1976 by the then Military Administrator of the state; Rear Admiral (retired) Ndubuisi Godwin Kanu.
The governor who is building a government house chapel, just outside the government house is demolishing the library to make space to create a car park for worshippers at the chapel when completed.
Okorocha had earlier this year taken over the library recreation park where he is presently constructing a mini mall of sort.
For an alternative however, the governor relocated the library to a remote area near Nekede village, into an uncompleted one-unit residential home without doors and windows.
Library staff complains that even the shelves of the library cannot enter the building without first being dismantled and rebuilt.
The Imo state library is made up of about five units of one-storey buildings fenced in and structured for effective library services.
The Library has over twelve specialized department that conforms to the building design of the state library which include the...
1] Public Library,
2] Children Library,
3] Research Library,
4] School Library,
5] Library for the handicapped (the only existing one in W/Africa).
6] Administration department,
7] Accounts department,
8] ICT unit.
9] department for Library Support Service.
10] Printing department.
The library workers who took to the street rescenly insist that the new location is not suitable for readership and not accessible to the reading public. Imo state residence noted that standard of education in the state under the watch of Governor Rochas Okorocha has crashed beyond words.
The angry state Library workers recalled that during the Gov Achike Udenwa administration, government upgraded and strengthened the pillars of the library and also painted it; Gov Ikedi Ohakim also gave the library a befitting face lift during his tenure, but Okorocha assumed office only to take over their recreation park, fence-in the library and now is planning to demolish and take over the library land.
Pleased be informed that the Governor of Imo state, is set to demolish the only library serving the entire state in the state Capital, Owerri.
The newly refurbished Library was built in 1976 by the then Military Administrator of the state; Rear Admiral (retired) Ndubuisi Godwin Kanu.
The governor who is building a government house chapel, just outside the government house is demolishing the library to make space to create a car park for worshippers at the chapel when completed.
Okorocha had earlier this year taken over the library recreation park where he is presently constructing a mini mall of sort.
For an alternative however, the governor relocated the library to a remote area near Nekede village, into an uncompleted one-unit residential home without doors and windows.
Library staff complains that even the shelves of the library cannot enter the building without first being dismantled and rebuilt.
The Imo state library is made up of about five units of one-storey buildings fenced in and structured for effective library services.
The Library has over twelve specialized department that conforms to the building design of the state library which include the...
1] Public Library,
2] Children Library,
3] Research Library,
4] School Library,
5] Library for the handicapped (the only existing one in W/Africa).
6] Administration department,
7] Accounts department,
8] ICT unit.
9] department for Library Support Service.
10] Printing department.
The library workers who took to the street rescenly insist that the new location is not suitable for readership and not accessible to the reading public. Imo state residence noted that standard of education in the state under the watch of Governor Rochas Okorocha has crashed beyond words.
The angry state Library workers recalled that during the Gov Achike Udenwa administration, government upgraded and strengthened the pillars of the library and also painted it; Gov Ikedi Ohakim also gave the library a befitting face lift during his tenure, but Okorocha assumed office only to take over their recreation park, fence-in the library and now is planning to demolish and take over the library land.
Just this morning, I was watching a documentary on the positive changes Gov. Okorocha has brought to education in Imo State. It is commendable to transform the lives of teachers and refurbish classrooms among others but can meaningful teaching and learning process take place without the Library?
Tunji Okegbola
On Monday, October 7, 2013 5:16 AM, Edetaen Ojo <edetaen@gmail.com> wrote:
PPDC drags NNPC to court over disregard for FOI Act
A civil society organisation, Public and Private Development Centre (PPDC), has dragged the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to court over non-disclosure of information and disregarding the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act.
The case was filed at an Abuja High Court in a suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/279/2013, and the next hearing has been fixed for October 23, 2013. The PPDC had approached the court for an injunction seeking to compel the NNPC to obey the FOI law and make available necessary information that was supposed to be in public domain regarding procurement of contract.
Speaking with the Nigerian Tribune on the sideline of a workshop organised for journalists by the Media Rights Agenda in Lagos, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of PPDC, Ms Seember Nyager, stated that the NNPC as a public institution entrusted with public funds should be accountable and transparent.
According to her, “we decided to drag NNPC to court due to its disregard for the FOI Act after several attempts to get information on contract procurement by it.”
The NNPC was rated by Transparency International (TI) in 2011 as the most corrupt state-owned oil firm.
NNPC was the only company to score zero on organisational information disclosure, which included the provision of details of deals agreed with governments and partners on energy projects.
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