House Slams Some MDAs Over Lopsided Recruitments

The House of Representatives ad-hoc committee probing the alleged job racketeering and gross mismanagement in Federal Ministries, Departments and agencies, has queried heads of some parastatals over lopsided employment.

At the resumed investigative hearing of some of the agencies invited by the Ad-hoc Committee, the Chairman, Yusuf Gagdi mandated management of the National Institute for Sports (NIS) to provide the nominal analysis of staff and reappear on Monday for further investigation

Mr. Gagdi slammed the Institute’s Director General, Professor Olawale Moronkola for recruiting six staff from the 22 recruitment slots meant for the 36 States of the federation from his state of Origin, Oyo state.

Earlier, Director General of the National Sports Institute, Professor Olawale Moronkola, while making his presentation said in 2023 the Institute recruited 22 staff.

Meanwhile, Director General of the National Institute of Technology Acquisition and Innovation (NITAI), Dr. Ahmed Ibrahim who also appeared at the hearing while defending the recruitment so far said in 2018, it was given approval based on the number of personnel required.

Dr. Ibrahim said the institute required more than 30 senior staff to be employed but at the end of it only 23 approval was given for it.

The waiver of that approval and names of the staff, state and local governments, where they come from were all contained in the document submitted to the committee, he said.

He said between 2015 till date, the institute has employed only 45 staff.

While noting that the challenges are documented, he pleaded for the committee’s assistance as the institute has an establishment position of close to 300 staff.

The Gagdi led Ad-hoc Committee said it was interested in helping agencies fill the available vacancies and equally interested in making agencies to do the needful in line with the principles of federal character.

Oduyemi Odumade, Edited By Grace Namiji