Mujahid Muhammad, a former Baltimore City School Board commissioner, resigned from his post on Sept. 30, the same day FBI agents were seen at a property associated with his behavioral and mental health nonprofit. The building, located at 7501 Liberty Road, is home to KEYS Empowers, an organization founded by Muhammad in 2009.
Muhammad submitted his resignation to Mayor Brandon M. Scott, who told the AFRO the former school board commissioner said he did not want to be a “distraction.”
“I received the resignation from the former commissioner. He said he didn’t want to be a distraction and we accepted it,” said Scott. “I don’t want to go into the mind of another man, but knowing him and seeing what happened, one could make a pretty good assumption that he doesn’t want whatever is going on with him and his personal things to interfere with the work of the school system because he knows it’s that important.”
During Muhammad’s three-year tenure on the school board, multiple organizations associated with him received purchase orders from Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools), according to records obtained by the AFRO…