Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, disrupted an event titled “Unveiling the Power of Women and Food Security” in Abuja on Thursday, stating it was organized without the ministry’s approval.
The event’s organizer was arrested by the Department of State Services for allegedly impersonating the ministry.
Kennedy-Ohanenye said, “It got to my notice earlier today that some group of people were using the name of the ministry for some unscrupulous activities. Upon getting this information, I stormed the alleged fraudulent event conducted in the Ministry’s name.”
She explained, “There is an impersonating thing going on here. The Federal Ministry of Women Affairs did not plan this. The lady, I have arrested her. Right now, she is with the Department of State Services.”
Kennedy-Ohanenye continued, “After we wrote that we were cancelling, the president approved that we should cancel until further notice; she still went ahead to print this thing. This is impersonation. As far as this thing was given out there, that makes it a fraud. So, that is why I am standing here to explain this to everyone. She has been arrested.”
The minister criticized the organizer’s actions, saying, “She should have organised herself, used her name to make an invitation, and used her name to do this and not to use the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs.”
Kennedy-Ohanenye added, “I can’t allow this programme to move on. I am sorry about it because this is pure impersonation, and the president is not happy about it. I am saying this. Let the media cover it; I don’t care. You don’t do this. You don’t take the ministry for granted.”
