Inuwa Ibrahim Waya: NNPC Official Arrested By NCA In UK For Fraud To Contest For Kano State Governorship Election Under APC

Inuwa Ibrahim Waya, Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (Trading), has indicated curiosity in contesting the ...

Inuwa Ibrahim Waya, Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (Trading), has indicated curiosity in contesting the 2023 governorship election in Kano State underneath the platform of the All Progressives Congress.

SaharaReporters gathered that Waya, who's previously the MD of Duke Oil, was arrested by the National Crime Agency within the United Kingdom for fraud.

He was bursted by the UK NCA over invoicing gas import scandals underneath the immediate-past Group Managing Director of NNPC, Maikanti Baru.

This, based on supply, made the corporate shut down its London operations and relocated to Dubai.

 “He is the employees concerned in how NNPC closed Duke Oil in London and relocated to Dubai when UK NCA bursted him over invoicing gas import scandals underneath Baru.

”You can think about the place a serving civil servant will get cash to contest for governorship ballot. 

"Its even a gross misconduct and abuse of workplace to be a civil servant with political affiliation,” a supply accustomed to the case instructed SaharaReporters.

                                                 

Section 4 of the Public Service Rules, the institutional code that outline and constrain the skilled behaviour and actions of the general public servants, defines critical misconduct as ‘a specific act of very serious wrongdoing and improper behaviour which is inimical to the image of the service and which can be investigated and if proven, may lead to dismissal’. 

Subsection 030402 (g) categorically states that ‘Engaging in partisan political activities’ as one of many vital examples of great misconduct.