Union gives NTDC ultimatum to avoid industrial action

AUPCTRE FCT had on October 27, 2014 sent a letter to the Minister of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation, calling for a need to urgently salvage the NTDC and save it from extinction.
AUPCTRE stated that it observed lapses in the ways NTDC affairs were run by the present boss, Mrs Sally Mbanefo. Already, AUPCTRE FCT executives, led by its Chairman, Comrade Benjamin Anthony, had visited NTDC Head Office in Area One Old Secretariat Complex, the second visit in a series.
The allegations against NTDC include the alleged misuse of over N52 million budgeted for capital project development in the capital budget for March to July 2014.
The union said the federal government from February to September 2014 released over N342 million overhead budget meant for training and other logistics, yet no training has been conducted  while zonal offices of NTDC lacked furniture, computers etc.
It accused Mbanefo of being harsh, temperamental and insultive to staff whom she used to communicated through text messages and coercing staff to beg for money.
Other allegations included release of NTDC staff bus to an outsider, employment of 50 staff without regard to federal character and public service procedure.
Mbanefo, when she met the AUPCTRE executives, recently, admitted: “I have made mistakes, I had been listening to directors who have not properly advised me, but as the accounting officer, I take full responsibility for all the lapses in the corporation.”