The Senate, on Wednesday, turned the heat on the two whistleblowers, Mrs Rose Odey and Tijani Idachaba, who opened a can of worms over the N500,000 they paid to secure employment in federal ministries. The duo had, on Tuesday, said that they, sometimes in April 2012, each gave the sum of N250,000 to one Juliet Egobunor, a staff of the Ministry of Lands and Housing in exchange for employment.
Chairman of the Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC), Deaconess Joan Ayo, however told the joint Senate Committee on Federal Character and Inter-Governmental Affairs and Employment, Labour and Productivity that the two employment letters tendered by Mrs Odey and Idachaba were mere “photocopies.”
Besides, the FCSC chairman stunned the Senate joint committee as she revealed that the Ahmed Dantanko who allegedly signed the employment letter issued to Odey and Tijani was dead.
In addition to being dead, she said Dantanko, who was not of a director rank but a civil servant, had left the services of the Commission in 2008, being a pool officer.
In her testimony before the committee, she said, “We wanted to bring him before the committee but, unfortunately, he died in an accident last year.
“He was a civil servant and not a Director. He signed for the then chairman. He was posted out of the Commission as a pool officer.”
Asked by a member of the committee on how it could be proved that the said Dantanko was indeed dead, she said, “I asked for the record and that was where we got to know that in addition to leaving the Commission, he was also dead...”
It also discovered that the two known job-for-sale racketeers, Juliet Egobunor and Simon Odujebe, fingered by Odey and Tijani, as the masterminds, were on the run.
“While Juliet has absconded from duty at the Ministry of Lands and Housing where she was working, Odujebe has “jumped bail”.
“There’s no record of the employment of Odey and Tijani anywhere in the FCSC. This has nothing to do with us. If we have apprehended Simon and Juliet, we would have gotten to the end of this case.
“They are on the run. We have told their ministry that they must produce them. If they can’t, they must produce their next-of-kin because that record must be in their files”, the FCSC boss said.
Chairman of the joint committee, Senator Awaisu Kuta, asked Tijani how he was absorbed into the federal ministry where he worked and he replied that, “a file was just opened for me at the ministry and that was it.”
The FCSC chairman faulted the process and said it contravened the extant civil service procedure guiding employment.
“If the employment was genuine, he would have gone to the Office of the Head of Service; that is where posting is issued. Nobody gets a letter and goes straight to the ministry. As a pool officer, that is not done”, she said.
Ayo further added that investigation at the Commission showed that the employment letters of Tijani and Odey have the same numbers.
“It means that somebody’s employment letter has been photocopied and its being recycled and used over and over again.”, she said.
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