Many of you will have read that Councillor Hassan Ahmed is standing down at the next election in May. They were hints in the Nottingham Evening Post that this was connected to the Future Jobs Fund initiative. The Future Jobs Fund was a Labour Government programme to tackle unemployment.
The rumours – and I stress they are rumours - are that Councillor Hassan Ahmed secured a large Future Jobs Fund contract for PATRA. PATRA are a local charity that helps people to get a job. In return PATRA agreed to send everyone on the Future Jobs Fund contract to a training college that Hassan is very involved in and has signed letters as the Chief Executive. The college is Central Education and Training.
However, as Councillor Hassan has had a number of serious allegations made against him in the past; I suspect that his agreement not to stand as a councillor in the May elections, means that the allegations being made are much more serious than this.
I think what is most disturbing is that if Hassan Ahmed did this (and I think it’s fair to assume that he did), he couldn’t have done so without the connivance of senior City Council officers and other councillors. What does that say about the extent of the corruption within the local authority?
Alan, more likely it was done via One Nottingham, where all the murkiest deals go. ON are of the opinion that they’re not covered by the Freedom of Information Act.
Nottingham Equal got their money via ON.
Apparently, according to the Labour Party spear-carrier who canvassed me last night, it’s all a “pack of lies”.
Delusional or what?
Nottingham City College, the organisation’s latest incarnation, and not to be be confused with similarly named local institutions, now lists Hassan Ahmed as the Principal on its scratchy website.
The “college” is a visa mill. Students arrive from Pakistan and then vanish without paying their course fees all with the connivance of the “college’s” owners.
Does anyone know anything about Jawaid Khalil? He’s a director of human resources at Central Training and Enterprises and was involved with the Rainbow Community Trust in Radford. His name crops up in association with Hassan Ahmed and an outfit called Education Pakistan which is based at Nottingham City College.
His day job is as a director at Notts Probation where he has been involved in training issues.
In 2009 Hassan Ahmed’s Area 4 Committee approved funding for a fashion course at the Rainbow Community Trust worth around £4000.
The Rainbow Community Trust was based in the same office as Project Rahnama an organisation set up to provide training and educational opportunities for Nottingham’s Asian communities.
There seems to be a pattern developing with Hassan Ahmed never far from the action.
And according to Companies House the Rainbow Community Trust has been returning dormant company accounts since its incorporation.
Funny how a dormant organisation can receive funding from NCC.
In 2009 the “dormant” Rainbow Community Trust received a £5k grant from Nottinghamshire Community Foundation to fund a feasibility study and business plan for asset transfer of community centres in Nottingham.
Interesting …
I find it disturbing that they are allowed to keep brushing these criminal acts under the carpet, the corruption has to stop,its unbelievable that NCC is promoting RESPECT for Nottingham they are all in it together all the way to the top and it seems to me they answer to no one can anyone tell me why please.