APC alleges GEJ's administration engaging in last minute dubious activities

The Leadership of the APC has alleged that
members of Pres. Jonathan's administration
are engaging in last minute dubious activities
ahead of the May 29th handover. In a
statement released by the publicity secretary
of the party, Lai Mohammed, the party
alleged that reports from the media as well
as information gathered from reliable sources
suggest the current administration is
engaging in rushed contract awarding and
staff recruitment.
"For example, the National Council on
Privatisation, which is headed by the
Vice-President, has just approved the
financial bid opening for transaction
advisers for the privatisation of the
three development finance institutions
in the country – the Bank of
Agriculture, Bank of Industry and
Nigeria Commodity Exchange.
Question is: What is the rationale for
rushing this exercise with just weeks
left for this administration?
Also, there have been reports, not
refuted, of a planned hurried
recruitment into the Nigeria
Immigration Service, after a previous
attempt ended in a national tragedy
and the fleecing of innocent job
seekers by mindless Federal
Government officials. The Civil
Defence, Fire, Immigration and Prisons
Services Board is only empowered to
recruit, promote and discipline only
senior officers (levels eight and
above). The power to recruit, promote
and discipline junior officers is vested
in the different services, in this case
the Nigeria Immigration Service.
Therefore, the recruitment exercise now
being conducted by the federal civil
service under the auspices of the
Presidential Committee to Assist on
Immigration Recruitment usurps the
functions of the board as it relates to
the recruitment of Senior Officers
(level 08) and that of the immigration
service as it relates to Junior Officers
(levels 07 and below).”the statement
in part read
The party also alleged that the FCT minister,
Senator Bala Mohammed has embarked on
the secret recruitment of about 500 new staff
into the Federal Capital Development
Authority
"We do not know if this report, as well
as others, is true. But if indeed these
rushed privatisation and hurried
recruitment exercises – in the twilight
of the Jonathan administration – are
true, they raise serious questions
concerning the reasons behind such
actions. We are therefore compelled to
call on President Jonathan to call his
officials to order, lest they engage in
actions that can later embarrass his
administration. This is against the
backdrop of the precarious situation
into which the Jonathan
administration has plunged the
nation’s economy, no thanks to years
of ceaseless and unprecedented
profligacy by the outgoing
administration, as well as mind-
boggling acts of corruption and looting
of the public treasury by some
administration officials and their
collaborators” the statement read