FCC commissioners write Buhari, accuse chairman of lopsided recruitment

Date: 2021-01-28

THE Federal Character Commission, the agency of government saddled with the task of monitoring and enforcing compliance with the principles of the proportional sharing of all government posts is currently enmeshed in a recruitment scandal, The PUNCH has learnt.

The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the FCC, Muheeba Dankaka, who was appointed last year by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), is accused of carrying out a secret recruitment and giving majority of the slots to her kinsmen from Kwara State in breach of the FCC Act.

In a petition dated December 10, 2020 and addressed to the President, it was alleged that Dankaka unilaterally recruited 22 employees out of which 11 of them are from her senatorial district in Kwara State.

The petition, which was signed by 20 out of the 37 FCC commissioners, is titled, 'Brazen breach of the provisions of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended), Federal Character Commission (Establishment) Act and gross abuse of office by the Chairman, Dr. Muheeba F. Dankaka OON, request for urgent intervention by Mr President to salvage the image of the Federal Government and the commission'.

The petition read in part, "It is on record that the chairman of the commission, purporting to exercise her powers as chief executive officer of the commission, sometime in November 2020, employed 22 persons into in the employment of the commission without regard to the federal character principle which the commission is expected to enforce.

"Out of the 22 employees, over 50 per cent of them were not only from the home state of the chairman, they were all from her senatorial district in Kwara State."

According to the petition, when Dankaka learnt that the commissioners were going to take action, she hurriedly halted the recruitment in a letter with reference number FCC/034/SI/Vol.V/1155, addressed to the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System.

The commissioners also accused Dankaka of relegating them in all decisions in the commission. In her response which was made available to The PUNCH, the FCC boss did not respond to the secret recruitment, insisting that the commissioners are her subordinates.

When contacted on the telephone, Dankaka said the commissioners were only angry because she refused to give them slots, adding that she did not do any recruitment within the commission.

The FCC chairman said she refused to carry them along in the recruitment of some sensitive agencies for security reasons.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Issa Baba     Kale Belgore     Local Government     Abdulmumini Sanni Jawondo     HAMFAT Clinic And Maternity     International Vocational Centre     Rotimi Atere     Gwanara     Muhammed Taofeeq Abdulrazaq     Maigida     Owu Fall     ER-KANG Mining     Kwara Volleyball Association     AGF Abdulrazaq     Www.Kwarareports.com     Baba Adini Of Kwara State     Yahaya Seriki     Budo Egba     John Olajide Adedipe     Garba Dogo     Adesoye     Sabitiyu Grillo     Photo News     Kawu     LABTOP     Ekiti     Garuba Alikinla Shittu     Abdulsalam Firdaous Amosa     Gambari     Yemi Sanni     Ileloke     Valsolar Consultoria     Saka Abimbola Isau     Omotosho     Yakubu Gobir     Tsaragi-Share     Femi Agbaje     Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi     NITDA     Oko-Erin     Bluenile Associates     Saka Onimago     Government High School (GHS), Adeta     Igbomina     Bareke     Alfa Yahaya Road     Sunday Otokiti     Umar Saro     Paul Odama     Abdullahi AbdulMajeed     Olabode Towoju     Kwara State Governor     Ajase-Ipo     Yinka Aluko     Muyiwa Oladipo Kanu     Afolabi-Oshatimehin Adenike Harriet     Eleyele     Nigerian Supreme Council For Islamic Affairs     Abdulmalik Bashir Mopelola Risikatullahi     Niyi Ogundiran     Ejidongari     Abdulrazaq Solihudeen     Leke Ogungbe     Nagode     Kuliyan Geri     Jimba Babatunde     Kwara Politics     Oloye     Odolaye Aremu     Bilikisu Oniyangi     Abubakar Aliagan     Tunde Idiagbon Road     Temitope Ogunbanke     Kannike     Tsaragi/Share     Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence     Yekini Adio    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Ike Ekweremadu     Bankole Omisore     Maimunat Oloriegbe     Oni Adebayo     Sarakite     Adamu Jemilat-Baki     Unilorin FM     Okin Malt     Timothy Olatunde Fadipe     Admiralty Villa     Aisha Abodunrin Ibrahim     Kolawole Akande     Ilorin     Saliu Alamoyo     Ballah     Ishaq Salman     KWIRS     Tanke Flyover Bridge     NSCIA     Ilorin South Constituency     Wole Oke     Ibrahim Abdullahi     Abubakar Imam     Gambari     Ubandoma     Ope Saraki     Ishola Abdullahi     Omoniyi M. Ayinla     Oba Of Jebba     Oyedepo     Isiaka AbdulRazaq     Owu Fall     Obuh     Junior Secondary School Certificate Examinations     NFAI     Dauda Adeniran Adeshola     Usman Rifun     Yashikira     Ilorin South     Raliat Islamic Foundation     CLAY POT     CACOVID     Muslim Media Watch Group Of Nigeria     Chief Of Staff     Yahaya Seriki     ASMAU PLAZA     Muazam Nayaya     NITDA     T And K FOODS     Pacify Labs     Simeon Sayomi     Mustapha Akanbi     Oloruntoyosi Thomas     Shuaib Olarongbe     Busari Alabi Alausa     Ariyo     Medinat Folorunsho Salman     Funmilayo Mohammed     Taofik Abiodun Ahmed     Abdulmumini Jawondo     Ishola Moses Abiodun     Issa Oloruntogun     Yusuf Ibitokun Sherifat     Kwara State Branch Of The National Library     Yahaya A Paniyaro     Wahab Isa     Baba Issa Awoye     Government High School (GHS), Adeta     Borgu     National Association Of Nigerian Students     Iqra Books     Atiku Abubakar     Yahaya Abdulkareem     Kupchi Hosea Maxwell     Saka Adeyemo     Abegunde Goke     Wahab Olasupo Egbewole