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The Centre for Accountability and Good Governance, Monday said the malicious publication by an online news media vilifying Dr. Mohammed Kyari Dikwa, mni, one of Nigerian's most outstanding public servants of conniving with a female staff of NDIC to hide and launder money in an apartment in Apo District is totally false and malicious.
Secretary General, Centre for Accountability and Good Governance, Olamide Ade Badmus in a press statement noted that this report of Calumny by the online media claimed that the alleged criminal act took place in 2020, but the online media and their sponsors chose to ignore it until 2023 relying on unsubstantiated testimony from an unreliable driver of questionable character.
Badmus stressed that for the avoidance of doubt, we want to make it categorically clear that we have been interacting with Dr. Dikwa for years, and we can vouch for him; that he is a man of impeccable character and his clean and excellent track record in the Borno State and the Federal civil service has been consistent.
He said there was never a time that the name of Dr. Dikwa, who retired as a permanent secretary, was mentioned in any case of corruption or official recklessness.
"We hereby use this medium to caution those behind the malicious story to retract it with immediate effect. One doesn't need to blackmail and tarnish the image of an individual simply because the individual poses a threat to his or her ambition.
"It is wrong to try people on pages of newspaper for offences they never commit simply because we do not like or hate them. This trend has to stop.
The Centre therefore called on Nigerians to disregard the story and see it as the handiwork of desperate politicians lobbying for appointment and using machievelian tactics to eliminate those who pose a threat to their ambitions.