With the dwindling fate of the Nigerian economy and the financial ill wind affecting the nation’s revenue base, even with the well meaning efforts of the managers of the nation’s economy, much is still expected as these efforts have been subverted by in house detractors and self serving Nigerians, many who have been tasked with the responsibility of managing this same economy.
Recent revelations have continued to expose these self seeking appointees who hold the nation and many of its revenue generating institutions at the jugular. The Nigerian Export and Import Bank (NEXIM) is presently under this draconian siege laid by its Executive Director, Business Development, Mrs. Folake Itohan Salami who is on a mission to circumvent its fortunes for pecuniary gains.
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan on December 14, 2011 appointed Mrs. Folake Itohan Salami, Executive Director, Business Development, for NEXIM Bank. Mrs. Salami whose marital status is shrouded in confusion, has a B.Sc in Business Administration (Second Class Upper) from University of Benin and MBA in Marketing from Rivers State University, Port-Harcourt.
Prior to her appointment at NEXIM, she has held several management and executive positions in banking and the private sector. Her meteoric fifteen years of work experience cover Commercial, Public Sector Banking, Mortgage Banking, Micro-finance lending and Multi-Purpose Corporative.
She worked with Nigeria Navy (NYSC), Union Bank Nigeria, Gulf Bank of Nigeria, First City Monument Bank, Federal Mortgage Bank (FCT Controller) and established a Multi Purpose Corporative Society cum bureau de change, where she served as Managing Director, which was the basis for her employment as Executive Director in NEXIM as the act empowering its establishment stipulates that before one is appointed to such a position he/she must have held the position of Managing Director or atleast Executive Director in a financial institution. She has failed to adjudt to her new position in fhe society going by her sudden rise to stardom anchored on corruption and forgery.
Unfortunately, her appointment as Executive Director which was occasioned by her ties with the wife of the president, Dame patience Jonathan, to whom she claims to be her first daughter, even as this claim is not devoid of its trail of scandals, which even led to a legal tussle of its own as she still owes one, Mrs. Regina Agwuda Ochube N 49,000,000.00 as link person to the presidency, has become an albatross for the novel financial institution, harvesting scandal after scandal.
Mrs. Folake Itohan Salami, came into NEXIM with a set goal, to amass illicit wealth and power. This singular goal was so blinding that she could not hide her ambition and resultantly she even had to go as cheap as pay the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), and other numerous media houses to announce her appointment as Managing Director instead of Executive Director as appointed, thus causing grave embarrassment to the bank’s corporate image.
When this plot did not work, Mrs. Salami in her malevolence, decided to polarise the staff of the once unified establishment into factions. With those on her side and supporting her ambition to gain access to the bank’s cooking pot set against the loyal staff of the establishment, thereby causing organisational incoherence.
The height of this insubordination came when she had in 2014 set out a budget of six million naira to ensure the corporate image built by the hardwork and dedication of the leadership of the institution is led to disrepute, she set out paying for media campaigns and hiring faceless and nefarious groups to bring into disrepute the good works of Robert Orya and his wonderful first tenure in office.
This involved money and phony inciting documents, which were judiciously served to the tune of three million with a pending balance to a coalition of civil societies and persons including but not restricted to Nigerian United Against
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