SEC Workers Jittery Over Oteh’s Return

Imminent return of the reinstated Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Ms Arunma Oteh, is already sending jitters down the spines of workers and some directors of the commission.Saturday Tribune investigation showed that the workers, majority of whom were vehemently opposed to her return to the coveted SEC seat, are now afraid of what they described as the possible policy of vendetta the returnee DG may unleash on the workers when she returns.

The workers union who held an anti-Oteh press conference recently on the attendance of Economic Management Team meeting while she was under suspension. Saturday Tribune learnt are now running from pillar to post with a view to mobilising the entire workforce against her return.

A staff of the commission, speaking under anonymity, told Saturday Tribune that, “We are now in trouble if this woman eventually succeeded in returning to her duty post.She already knew our stand on her continuing stay at SEC. She will still have pockets of staff as her loyalists. These are the people that will fish some of us out.”

The Presidency, on Wednesday, recalled Ms Arunma Oteh, the suspended Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Oteh was sent on compulsory leave by the SEC board to enable external auditors examine the records of the commission on transactions covering “SEC Project 50”, which she supervised.

A circular dated July 17 and signed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, gave Oteh a clean bill of health on the corruption allegations levelled against her.

The circular, copies of which were made available to State House correspondents, said Oteh was “neither indicted for fraud nor criminal breach in any form” by the audit report.Share