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Akinwande Soji-Ojo
Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, has revealed that an event organiser has been taken into custody by the Department of State Services (DSS) for impersonating the ministry.
Kennedy-Ohanenye spoke in Abuja while stopping the event organised by Mela-Chiyoma Pat Limited, on Thursday.
In a viral video, the minister said the event, tagged “Unveiling the power of women and food security,” was organised in the name of Ministry of Women Affairs without approval.
She said President Bola Tinubu ordered the cancellation of the event, but the organiser went ahead with it.
“There is an impersonation 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 (DSS).
“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
“She should have organise it herself, use her name to make an invitation, use her name to do this, and not use the name of Federal Ministry of Women Affairs.
“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,” she said.
