The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Social Investments, Maryam Uwais, has filed a N2 billion suit against Leadership newspaper for an alleged defamatory report on the National Social Investments Programmes (NSIP).


The court document filed on September 13, and seen by PREMIUM TIMES on Friday, said the report, titled ”Aisha Buhari Right on NSIP” caused Mrs Uwais an ”irreparable damage to reputation”.

Mrs Uwais demanded N2 billion as “punitive aggravated and exemplary damages” and N2 million as cost of this suit.

She filed the suit at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) court through Olufemi Fabunmi, Oluwole Abiola, Mu’awiya Yinusa, and Victor Forghe of Primera Africa law chamber in Abuja.

She requested “An order of the court compelling the defendant to pay the sum of N2 billion to the claimant as punitive aggravated and exemplary damages for the public ridicule and loss to reputation.”

‘Cesspool of impunity’

The Leadership newspaper in the report, published on July 23 said the first lady, Aisha Buhari’s claims that the NSIP failed to justify its annual N500 billion budget for its four programmes ”may not be far from the truth”.


The newspaper also reported that Mrs Uwais ”had turned the NSIP into a cesspool of impunity, injustice and corrupt practices”.

N-SIP was set up by the Buhari administration to improve the living conditions of millions of poor Nigerians across the country.

The programmes include N-Power, National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP), National Cash Transfer Project (NCTP), and Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP).

Mrs Buhari, on May 27, criticised the scheme coordinated by Mrs Uwais, and said the initiative failed to reach its intended beneficiaries in two states, Adamawa and Kano.

Mrs Buhari who spoke at a forum at the Presidential Villa said she was told that 30,000 women from Adamawa would benefit from the programme but nothing of such happened.

“The SSA to the president on social investment is a lady from Kano and I’m sure that my husband decided to put somebody from Kano because of the population and political impact it made. I have never asked how the money is used or being given out,” she said.

In reaction to Mrs Buhari’s observations, the National Social Investment Office (NSIO), coordinator of the NSIP, in a statement sent to PREMIUM TIMES in May, however, itemised its achievements in Adamawa and Kano.

President Buhari during the Independence Day speech said the NSIPs will now be moved to the newly created ministry of social development.

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Madam you are a thief, 2 billion kee you there ole.

Madam spare us those mumbo-jumbo.
This court suing is just to cover face and scare the press and Nigerians from opening your can of worms.
She should tell us which of the NSIP programme that is recording 50% success.

The way this guys place charge eehhnn.


I think I need someone to sue

Wow

N2 billion ooo, N1 naira nii

The way news outlets are getting sued these days calls their professionalism and expertise into question.

The same court they refuse to obey!!! What an irony

Nigeria politics

sammyj:
The same court they refuse to obey!!! What an irony

What do u expect from ALL PAST CRIMINAL

This is a welcome development and victory for democracy.

The Rule of law must be upheld. Our media houses are part of our major problem in the country.

Always publishing fake news.

God bless Buhari for upholding the rule of law.

Nigeria shall be great again

Why hide my post pointing out the duplication of a thread with different titles on the Frontpage.
I don't understand the mods...

2billion for what? Check my profile if you need an all in one solar street light to lighting your way , parks , garden , fence , farm e.t.c with a year warranty.

Which court? Buhari doesn't obey court orders. So Leadership should ignore her. Ole

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Cherrybae:
This is a welcome development and victory for democracy.

The Rule of law must be upheld. Our media houses are part of our major problem in the country.

Always publishing fake news.

God bless Buhari for upholding the rule of law.

Nigeria shall be great again

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Nonsense

Apc lead government is not feeling the heat at all,the opposition hasn't put them n their toes yet.if pdp do half of what they did in gej time

Legal gbas gbos season

You accuse me of corruption i sue you ass to court
you accuse me of rape , i sue your donkey ass to court

you publish libelious trash about me, better have evidence or i would milk you dry in damages

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Interesting..

Cherrybae:
This is a welcome development and victory for democracy.

The Rule of law must be upheld. Our media houses are part of our major problem in the country.

Always publishing fake news.

God bless Buhari for upholding the rule of law.

Nigeria shall be great again

Because you're not educated: You don't know what the rule of law entails! It's a big pity! #NigerianYouthsarelost

But Jonathan was insulted more yet no suit.

This is Nigeria........ 2Billion for what we ?

The way this guys place charge eehhnn.


I think I need someone to sue

I am 100% supportive of the lawsuit. Newspaper managers would just sit down one place without embarking on an investigative journalism/reportage, but compromise with politicians to attack opponent's reputations. SSA to the president, Maryann Uwais is doing a very good job. I have been following up this programme coordinated by the Mrs Maryann Uwais since 2016, and it has been a huge success. For example, I know about 2 unemployed graduates (indigenes of Imo state) living in Port Harcourt who applied for the N-Power programme in 2016 when it was advertised by federal government. This 2 graduates casually applied (with the perception that nothing works in Nigeria except connections), but fortunately for them got enrolled thanks to transparency instilled by the Vice president, president Buhari and his team/aides on National Social Investment Programme coordinated by Mrs Maryann Uwais.Since 2016 till date, this unemployed graduates have been receiving their monthly stipends from the annual appropriated budget for NSIP programme. Note: Do not know anybody in government (both federal and state level).

Most of these government initiatives are nothing but sinkholes of money and resources. All the staff there do, is pretend to work while doing & achieving nothing, while the oga-madam in charge embezzles allocated funds and travels to-and-fro with security escort, mobile policemen and siren

And it is because of duplicated government parastatals and agencies like this, that Buhari and his henchmen want to tax Nigerians to death. Bunch of vagabonds in power.

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solmusdesigns:
Legal gbas gbos season

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Maxcollins042:
The way news outlets are getting sued these days calls their professionalism and expertise into question.

I don't think so. The government is just trying to gag them.
That's all.

Maxcollins042:
The way news outlets are getting sued these days calls their professionalism and expertise into question.

So when patience who refused to get medical treatment come die for hospital, doctor no know work?

This is just an intimidation and nothing more.

Seeing that the journalist was misinforming the public, wouldn't it have been best she publish records that will prove her detractors wrong and affirm her incorruptible persona?