The Head of Service of the Federation, Didi Esther Walson-Jack, on Wednesday disclosed that some staff of the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council, PFIPC, had visited her officials, claiming to be from a new agency of government.
Walson-Jack alleged that the PFIPC staff, led by their purported Director General, Adeyemi Adeniyi, demanded an appointment letter for their Chief Executive Officer, in line with the service Establishment Act.
Making the revelations while appearing before the House of Representatives committee investigating the fake DG, following his fraudulent allegations against President Bola Tinubu’s Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, Walson-Jack noted that criminals are always trying to be one step ahead.
According to Walson-Jack: “I have come to defend the budget and I will just go straight to the matter at hand, which is regarding the interaction of my office with the Presidential Economic Advisory Council/Presidential Financial Intervention Promotion Council.
“Now this Council appeared before my officials and they claimed to be a new agency and for newly established organisations requiring an initial work force, requested for authorized established positions as follows…
“One is a letter of appointment of the Chief Executive Officer or Principal Officer of the establishment act. I would like to pause here to explain that over the years this office has dealt with hundreds of requests from both permanent and ad hoc federal government agencies for authorized establishment and recruitment wavers.
“I will like to state that we have never encountered a situation like the current one. This is one that I would like to say since the beginning of the Federal Civil Service almost a century and we believe that in every situation in society criminals always try to be a step ahead.”
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