By Christiana Ekpa
The House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee investigating employment racketeering by Ministries Departments and Agencies and Mismanagement of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS, on Wednesday vowed to take drastic actions against agencies requesting and accepting waivers as a means to carry out indoor recruitment exercise.
The Chairman of the Committee, Hon. Yusuf Gagdi who disclosed this at the investigative hearing of his committee maintained that MDAs who recruit without advertisement have contravened extant laws.
He pointed out that most qualified Nigerians graduates specially those who have nobody have been denied job because of waivers as MDA’s usually carry out indoors employment without advertisement to enable such Nigerians apply for the job.
The Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation, NAIC, in it’s appearance before the panel explained that it came into existence over some years ago adding that it’s self funded agency.
The agency further told members of the Committee that they don’t get a dime from the federal government owing to the fact that they are self funded establishment.
Again, NAIC told the lawmakers that they got waivers from the federal characters commission to employed as they needed few staff which they could pay at the end of the months as self funded agency.
Reacting, the Chairman, Hon. Gagdi commended NAIC management team for orderly arrangement of documents presented to his committee but advised them to present nominal register containing list of all employees to the secretariat.
In his presentation, the Director General, Directorate of Technical Corporation in Africa, DTCA, Ambassador Rabiu Dagari, informed the lawmakers that his directorate is a creation of presidential fiat adding that they are currently under the ministry of foreign affairs.
The chairman of the Committee further observed that the agency has not place advert for job vacancy.
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