Job Scandal:Senator Accuses Senate President, Lawan Of ‘Hijacking’ 26 FIRS Slots
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Senate President Ahmad Lawan (Yobe North) was said to have secured 26 job slots for his constituents, from the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Daily Trust exclusively gathered.
This is just as the job scandal
rocking the upper chamber gets messier with senators threatening showdown over
the sharing formula of the employment slots given to them by the federal
agency.
Employment letters were said to have since been distributed to the
beneficiaries by the Senate president.
A senator, who spoke to Daily Trust yesterday, accused Lawan of “hijacking the
26 slots without considering other senators, not even from his state.”
A youth association from Lawan’s constituency, Unity for Collective Progress Forum, yesterday said all the beneficiaries had received employment letters and were expected “to commence work in earnest”.
The association gave the breakdown
of the beneficiaries’ local government areas, from Lawan’s constituency as
Nguru, 5; Karasuwa, 3; Machina, 4; Bade, 7; Yusufari, 4 and Jakusko 3.
The Socio-Economic Right and Accountability asked Lawan to clarify the
allegations that 100 employment slots for federal agencies were allocated to 10
principal officers of the Senate.
The spokesman of the Senate president, Ola Awoniyi, neither answered several phone calls nor replied a text message sent to him last night.
The spokesmen of the Federal Character Commission and the FIRS also did not answer phone calls on the issue.
Speaking to Daily Trust, Chairman, Senate Committee on Federal Character and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Danjuma La’ah, said the committee had commenced an investigation into the alleged lopsided recruitment by some federal agencies.
“I am making my investigation underneath to
avoid disgracing people, “ he said.
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