Exactly four years ago, President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Mr. Adedayo Thomas as the Executive Director, National Film and Video Censors’ Board.
The embattled Executive Director had told DAILY POST during an interview in his office that accountability and probity was his watchword, but the workers are singing different tunes.“Ever since Mr. Thomas was appointed in March 2017, things have not been the same at the National Film and Video Censors Board.
“Currently over thirty staff are being investigated by EFCC and some have even been asked to refund money fraudulently paid into their accounts. He will pay the money into their account and later ask them to withdraw and bring the cash to him. Refusal to comply will in most cases lead to such officers being transferred to locations considered in the opinion of Mr. Thomas as hostile and insecure.
He added that there were presently over ten cases instituted against the Executive Director in different courts. “He also punitively transferred one Mrs. Patience Okoh from Lagos office to Sokoto State office for revealing the details surrounding the sale of the office property in Lagos. She had earlier stated in her written statement to the Special Presidential Investigation Panel For The Recovery of Public Property that those items were removed from their Lagos office by the Executive Director.
While responding to the various allegations, he quipped: “The petition to anti-graft agencies was fictitious, to distract my reform process. I was cleared of the allegations by the anti-grafts and Cornel even apologised for the petition.