Civil Society Organisations on Monday urged the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, to take urgent steps to protect a whistleblower, Richard Oghenerhoro, facing retaliation for exposing and publicising fraudulent employment practices in the ministry.
In a letter addressed to the minister, the heads of a coalition of CSOs working to promote transparency and accountability in Nigeria, called on him to ensure full protection for the whistleblower by reversing the punitive postings and end the various acts of intimidation and assault against Oghenerhoro by some staff of the ministry.
The CSOs in the letter dated August 15, 2022, and titled, ‘Request for protection for whistleblower Richard Oghenerhoro’, alleged that whistleblower has been subjected to intimidation in the ministry.
The letter was jointly signed by the Coordinator, African Centre for Media and Information Literacy, Chido Onumah; the Executive Director, Progressive Impact Organisation for Community Development, Augustine Agbonsuremi; the Chairman, Human and Environmental Development Agenda, Olarewaju Suraj, and Deputy Director, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, Kolawole Oluwadare.
The letter read in part, “From our findings, we observed that his courageous act has elicited retaliation in form of punitive postings from the Appointment Unit where he uncovered the employment scam, to Open Registry and then a removal from the headquarters altogether to the Gwagwalada office as head of...
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