By Michael Agbaji
The Senate Committee on Federal Character and Inter-Governmental Affairs Chaired by Senator Allwell Onyesoh( Rivers East) says,the National Assembly will sanctioned any Agencies Government who failed to respect the principle of Federal Character.
This position was revealed on Wednesday when the Committee had a crucial meeting with management of the National Assembly Service Commission at the National Assembly.
Senator Onyesoh asked the National Assembly Service Commission to breakdown the numbers of employed staffs in the commission down to local to enable his Committee no the principal of Federal in the commission.
According to him,every State to local government is expected equal opportunity in the employment,he further ask the commission to finished his committee with more document to enable them have more knowledge of what the commission has dawn.
We felt that it is proper for us to call the National Assembly Service Commission and sit down with them to clarify issues and make all their activities more transparent, more glaringly clear for people to see that all state and local government are not sub change in their activities.
He said that the essence of the Federal Character situation is to create unity, fairness and equity, adding that, “you can’t have that if someone is feeling rejected, feeling not carried along.”
According to him, number of the local government will also determine what state will get,you can expect a state like Kano with 44 local government to equal opportunity with state 11 local government like Nasarawa he said.
Earlier, the executive Chairperson of the Federal Character Commission, Dr. Muheeba Farida Dankaka, denied that there is job racketeering under her watch, adding that it happened in the past when, “the place was like a market place.”
She urged the Committee to assisst the Commission to be able to correct the past wrongs and help them with their budget as the 2024 Capital approved for them by the National Assembly was reduced to zero.
According to him,the National Assembly service Commission only did employment since 2018 that the commission has about 300 Vacancy which will soon recruits immediately the permanent office is completed by end of the year he said”Job for money, Senate frowns at lack of adherence to federal character principles.
