EMPLOYMENT RACKET SCANDAL ROCKS NPA...... Senate To Probe FCC, Others.
"The Senate Committee on Federal Character Commission has been investigating and we are doing everything possible to unravel those behind sales of jobs at the FCC".
The Nigeria Ports Authority is currently, enmeshed in an embarrassing scandal in the issuance of appointment letters of employment.
This is the revelation of the Senate Committee on Federal Character Commission and Inter - Governmental Affairs, during its sitting at the National Assembly on Monday.
According to reports available, the Senate Committee has said that it would soon begin the probe of the alleged sales of the Nigerian Ports Authority appointment letters.
Allegations before the panel states that an employment letter of the NPA was being sold for as much as #3m by some officials of the Federal Character Commission.
Disclosing this is the Chairman of the Committee, Senator Danjuma La'ah, who stated this in an interview with journalists in Abuja as he vowed to get to the root of the matter.
Danjuma La'ah revealed that his panel was in possession of a documented evidence involving a man who bought the NPA job for the sum of #3m (three million naira) from the FCC.
The Senator who represents the Kaduna South Senatorial Zone of the state, noted with great concern that his panel had been inundated with "underhand dealings that have been going on at FCC".
"The Senate Committee on Federal Character Commission has been investigating and we are doing everything possible to unravel those behind sales of jobs at the FCC", he said.
"I got reports from different people on sales of jobs going on at the Federal Character Commission".
"Appointment into government offices are now for sale at the Federal Character Commission. It is real",
"Someone has forwarded to me, a text message which is in my phone that he purchased the Nigeria Ports Authority job from the Federal Character Commission at the sum of #3m".
"This is shocking. It makes my heart bleed. I am so sad and I am going to take a drastic action in this case".
"If the committee finds out this is what they have been doing, we are not going to take it lightly with them", he stated.
According to Senator La'ah, this is an embarrassing development to the society and even to the regime of the President Major General Muhammadu Buhari (Retd).
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