The
Senate, yesterday, described as ridiculous a total sum of N28 million
spent this year by the Federal Civil Service Commission, FCSC, to
renovate 26 toilets facilities.
The
Senate Committee on Establishment and Public Service chaired by Senator
Aloysius Etok, PDP, Akwa Ibom North-West was also told that N18 million
was expended to renovate the commission’s offices in 2012 and N25
million went to ITC equipment for the offices.
Disclosing
this when she led others to defend the 2013 budget of the Commission,
Chairman of FCSC, Deaconess Joan Olatoyosi, informed the commission that
over N129 million was approved for the commission to conduct the 2012
interview and promotion of civil servants, adding that N70 million was
released by the Federal Government to complement the N59 million earlier
released by government to conduct the exercise, just as she explained
that this led to the promotion of 1,229 workers out of the 4,034 civil
servants interviewed.
The
Commission’s Chairman however denied insinuation that staff of the
Commission collect N500,000 from any applicant as kickback for
employment and challenged anyone with proof to come forward.
Etok
while reacting described the commission’s expenditure as a clear case
of robbery. According to him, he wondered why the commission could go
such extra mile in defrauding government in such manner, adding: “As a
chairman of this committee, let me say here that we disagree with this
and on this note, we request to meet with all those involved in this
contract.
“We, the politicians are the ones that people call thieves; nobody calls you, the civil servants thieves.”
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