The Founder, Chairman of the Governing Council, and President of the Chartered Institute of Project Managers of Nigeria (CIPMN), Dr. Mrs. Victoria Okoronkwo, has vowed to reclaim the institution using all legal means available.
“I am resolute in my commitment to sanitizing the Institute”, she declared, adding, “We will exhaust every legal, institutional, and procedural avenue to recover our name, our mandate, and our integrity. “We are working with law enforcement, regulatory authorities, and the judiciary to ensure that justice is served”.
She made the vow during a press briefing on the update of the deepening crisis plaguing the CIPMN in Abuja on Monday.
Addressing journalists, the founder decried the actions of some dismissed senior officials of the organisation alleging that they embarked on coordinated and sustained actions to rubbish her reputation and integrity as well as ridicule the CIPMN.
Okoronkwo further alleges that the individuals, including an ex-registrar “have waged a coordinated campaign of impersonation, fraudulent operations, and blatant disregard for the rule of law, all in an attempt to hijack the CIPMN for personal enrichment”.
Describing their operations as deliberate intention to undermine the objectives of CIPMN, she said calls on all stakeholders to, “the grave and urgent matter concerning the sustained attack on the integrity and existence of our noble Institute by a gang of impostors and fraudsters”.
She accused them of “running parallel operations, organizing unauthorized trainings, issuing fake certificates, misleading the public, and using CIPMN’s name to carry out massive fraud”, among others,
despite court judgments stopping them.
The embittered CIPMN President said they flagrantly disregarded court orders, citing SUIT NO: CV/125/19, a judgment delivered on December 15, 2020, by the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory.
“They even went so far as to issue a fake notification letter referenced CIPMN/ADM/GXC/036/VOL.1/029 with the heading “NOTIFICATION LETTER ON IMPERSONATION OF GOVERNMENT REGULATORY BODY BY CLIENT,” falsely accusing CIPMN of impersonating a federal agency.
“Let it be known today that CIPMN is a chartered professional body duly established by the Act of the National Assembly—CIPMN Establishment Act No 3 of 2018 (Gazetted No. 15 Vol. 105). We are not, and have never claimed to be, a regulatory agency of the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Investment (FMITI).
“The use of the domain name cipmn.gov.ng by this group is not only illegal but a calculated attempt to deceive”, Okoronkwo concluded.
