Buhari sacks another top government official after 6-month in office

Barely after six months of his appointment, President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked the Director-General of the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Senator Basheer Mohammed.

…..The President has now replaced Basheer immediately as Director-General of the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).

According to the announcement, Dr Fatima Waziri-Azi has resumed as the new Director General.

….Bihari approved the appointment of Waziri-Azi following the recommendation of the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, who expressed the “urgent need for the Ministry to intensify on the existing capacity in the NAPTIP in order to achieve its Key Result Areas as identified.”

……Waziri-Azi was a former Head of Department of Public Law at the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, a Women’s Right advocate, a campaigner against domestic and sexual-based violence and an expert in Rule of Law.