SGF Mum As Fake Agency Boss Fires Back, As Anambra SSG clarifies involvement in ‘fake’ federal agency
ABUJA — Embattled National Coordinator and Executive Director of the Made-in-Nigeria Project Office, an agency which existence is now under investigation, Nwabueze Buchi George, has dismissed growing public scrutiny of his organisation, telling critics that only their own lack of awareness could explain why they were just discovering a programme that had existed for 16 years.
This was even as officials of the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, OSGF, declined to comment on the controversy trailing the outfit.
Nwabueze’s comment, posted on LinkedIn in reaction to questions trailing his outfit, amid the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission’s clampdown on the National Brands Development and Made-in-Nigeria Special Project Office, described the scrutiny as a failure of observation rather than a legitimate query about the agency’s status.
“How can you discover a 16 years program in 2026, it’s means you have been blind, we are committed to the national development,” he wrote.
The remark followed a series of posts in which Nwabueze had traced the origin of his outfit to a June 15, 2010 initiative, presenting a letter from the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, dated July 19, 2010, as part of that history.
That letter, however, was addressed to a “Buchi George” of The Hats Centre in Owerri, Imo State, and concerned the endorsement of a project, titled “Made In Naija” for an event in Ireland, rather than any Made-in-Nigeria brand development scheme.
His claim of 16 years of continuous operation also runs against a separate document he posted, an appointment letter from the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation dated October 3, 2025, which formally conveyed his appointment as National Coordinator/Executive Director of the Made in Nigeria Project Office under a five-year tenure that began in July 2025.
