The Leadership of the APC has alleged that members of Pres.
Jonathan's administration are engaging in last minute dubious activities
ahead of the
May 29th
handover. In a statement released by the publicity secretary of the
party, Lai Mohammed, the party alleged that reports from the media as
well as information gathered from reliable sources suggest the current
administration is engaging in rushed contract awarding and staff
recruitment.
"For example, the National Council on
Privatisation, which is headed by the Vice-President, has just approved
the financial bid opening for transaction advisers for the privatisation
of the three development finance institutions in the country – the Bank
of Agriculture, Bank of Industry and Nigeria Commodity Exchange.
Question is: What is the rationale for rushing this exercise with just
weeks left for this administration?
Also, there have been reports, not
refuted, of a planned hurried recruitment into the Nigeria Immigration
Service, after a previous attempt ended in a national tragedy and the
fleecing of innocent job seekers by mindless Federal Government
officials. The Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration and
Prisons Services Board is only empowered to recruit, promote and
discipline only senior officers (levels eight and above). The power to
recruit, promote and discipline junior officers is vested in the
different services, in this case the Nigeria Immigration Service. Therefore, the recruitment exercise now
being conducted by the federal civil service under the auspices of the
Presidential Committee to Assist on Immigration Recruitment usurps the
functions of the board as it relates to the recruitment of Senior
Officers (level 08) and that of the immigration service as it relates to
Junior Officers (levels 07 and below).”the statement in part read
The
party also alleged that the FCT minister, Senator Bala Mohammed has
embarked on the secret recruitment of about 500 new staff into the
Federal Capital Development Authority
"We do not know if this report, as well as others, is true. But if indeed
these rushed privatisation and hurried recruitment exercises – in the
twilight of the Jonathan administration – are true, they raise serious
questions concerning the reasons behind such actions. We are therefore compelled to call on President Jonathan to call his
officials to order, lest they engage in actions that can later embarrass
his administration. This is against the backdrop of the precarious situation into which the
Jonathan administration has plunged the nation’s economy, no thanks to
years of ceaseless and unprecedented profligacy by the outgoing
administration, as well as mind-boggling acts of corruption and looting
of the public treasury by some administration officials and their
collaborators” the statement read
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