*finger EFCC in compromise
*My refusal to join raketeering spurred their anger against me – Dankaka
By Christiana Ekpa
Commissioners in the Federal Character Commission (FCC), accused the chairman of the commission, Farida Dankaka of selling jobs in dollars in Federal Ministries, Department and Agencies (MDAs) of Government.
The commissioners made the allegations at the House of Representatives Ad hoc committee investigating MDA and parastatal and Tertiary Institutions on employment racketeering in Abuja on Wednesday.
Some of the commissioners who made the allegations include: Abdulrasaq Adeoye, FCC, commissioner, representing Osun State, James Dan’iya, representing Kwara State.
Others include: Abdulwasiu Bawa-Allah, representing Lagos State, Moses Anaughe, representing Delta State, Barr. Mamman Alakayi, representing Nasarawa state among others.
The commissioners in some documents sighted by reporters and submitted to the committee also alleged that Dankaka often connived with MDAs to collect 10 per cent of job offered.
The commissioners also alleged that Dankaka connived with the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) to stop petition written against her on job racketeering by the commissioners.
“We petitioned the EFCC to investigate her but to our dismay nothing has been done after the former chairman of the commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa met with her. ”
They claimed that Dankaka sister was also used in job racketeering, while providing details of account numbers and bank statements where the job seekers made payments
The commissioners claimed that many of the job seekers who had paid could not get job as promised by Dankaka.
“When the jobs were not forthcoming, the victims reacted and the Department of State Security (DSS)have to be invited.”
“Job seekers pay as low s N750, 000 and as high as N 7 million depending on the MDAs where the jobs are being sought.”
“The money from the various account are transferred into the main account in Access bank owned by one Auwal Kundi from the money is allegedly changed into dollar denomination for alleged onward transfer to Dankaka.
The commissioners alleged that the chairman often moved her son from one lucrative agencies to the other
They added that she initially secured job for his son at the Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC) and later transfered him to the Downstream Regulatory Commission.
They alleged that the chairman had severally sold job slots to some Nigerians, adding that she had canceled 24 employment initially offered to some Nigerians only to replace them with her own candidates.
in a document submitted to the panel, they claimed that the 24 people she replaced them with were now ghost workers.
Reacting to the barrage of allegations, Dankaka said, “when you fight corruption, corruption will fight back, ” adding that this is what is happening at the commission.
“I did not come to make money, but to serve my father land, what some of them are looking for is money, before I come here, I have made my money, some of them have their reasons for attacking me.
“For instance, Osun commissioners is always in my office, what they are accusing me of is not true, ” she said.
Dankaka said before she came into office in July 2020, all the commissioners were selling jobs, adding that her refusal to join the fray spurred their anger against her.
According to her, for instance, the commissioner representing, Osun State bought a property and told the person that he will be paying with job slots.
This according to her necesitated her letters to MDAs that if they do not see her signature , they should not honour any letter from any commissioner.
The chairman said she refused their offered to compromise, adding that she would be the last person to sell job., adding that the commissioners were behind all the campaign of calumny in the media and on social media.
On the issue of EFCC, she said the agency wanted to employ personnel and got the approval, adding that at no time did she compromise.
Rep Gagdi Yusuf, the chairman of the committee however said that the committee would no be part of politics of any agencies, “we will do our job and justice will be done. ”
He queried why document relating to the activities of the commission in terms of employment would be said to have been missing.
