Communication expert and strategist, Iheoma Shedrack, during the weekend, vented dis-pleasure over what he described as ‘conscious manipulation’ during a hearing between the National Board for Arabic and Islamic Studies NBAIS, and the National Assembly committee.
The hearing, which done at National Assembly complex, was to interrogate issues of revenues and remittances of NBAIS.
In a statement, made available to our reporters, Shedrack said “the senate committee on finance in its usual grandstanding of putting the cart before the horse and apportioning blames ‘harsh-hosted’ the management of the National Board for Arabic and Islamic Studies NBAIS on the 19th of Sept, 2022.”
Among other things, he bemoaned the entire process, stating the committee projected statistics without having a comprehensive understanding of the revenues that were generated, how the money was used, or perhaps even what percentage of the anticipated cash eventually reached the NBAIS accounts.
He added: I followed with utmost unease, the intimidation strategy and conscious manipulations of facts adopted by the committee members.
“NBAIS Registrar, Prof. Mohammad Shafi’u Abdullahi on the orders of Senator Adeola was asked to switch off his microphone midway when he tried to clear issues of revenues and remittances of the agency.