{"id":54340,"date":"2016-11-07T15:41:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T14:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=54340"},"modified":"2016-11-07T15:41:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T14:41:23","slug":"probe-magus-recruitment-scam-efcc-group-tells-fg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/probe-magus-recruitment-scam-efcc-group-tells-fg\/","title":{"rendered":"Probe Magu&#8217;s Recruitment Scam In EFCC, Group Tells FG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8230;Urges NASS To Jettison His Confirmation<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The National Assembly has been called upon to expeditiously order the<br \/>\nthorough, open and dispassionate probe of the recent recruitment exercise<br \/>\nconducted by the Acting Chairman\u00a0Mr. Ibrahim Magu\u00a0in which Northerners<br \/>\ndominated by over 75 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Making the call in a press statement in Abuja, the pro-democracy<br \/>\nNon-Governmental Organization-\u00a0HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA<br \/>\n(HURIWA)\u00a0has also carpeted the Federal Character Commission (FCC) for its<br \/>\ngross incompetence and criminal collusion which has allowed for such<br \/>\nflagrant breaches of the constitutional stipulation by a Federal agency<br \/>\nsuch as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in its employment<br \/>\nfunction.<\/p>\n<p>Lamenting that the Federal Character Commission had similarly remained<br \/>\ndormant and compromised whilst\u00a0President Muhammadu Buhari\u00a0failed to carry<br \/>\nthe South East of Nigeria along in the appointment of top level Defence<br \/>\nand Security positions<\/p>\n<p>Besides,\u00a0HURIWA\u00a0said other agencies such as the Nigerian Customs Service<br \/>\nheaded by a retired military Colonel had recently made lopsided promotions<br \/>\nof the top cadres which unconstitutionally excluded the South East.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking specifically on the emerging recruitment scandal in\u00a0the Economic<br \/>\nand Financial Crimes Commission, the Rights body charged the National<br \/>\nAssembly to jettison the confirmation process of the Acting Chairman of<br \/>\nthe EFCC\u00a0Mr. Ibrahim Magu because of such illegalities inherent in the<br \/>\nrecruitment exercise and other abuses of the human rights of suspects<br \/>\nbeing detained in the facilities run by the anti-graft body.<\/p>\n<p>HURIWA\u00a0stated thus: \u201cwe call on the relevant committees of the National<br \/>\nAssembly and indeed the hierarchies of the two chambers of the National<br \/>\nAssembly to investigate the allegations published by an Abuja based<br \/>\nnational daily which discovered that apart from the fact that 75 percent<br \/>\nof the shortlisted candidates are from the North, several of such<br \/>\ncandidates bore the same family names. This is an unmitigated scandal of<br \/>\nmonumental proportions which mustn\u2019t be swept under the carpets. This<br \/>\nunpardonable impunity must be investigated and the top management of this<br \/>\nagency sanctioned appropriately because what has been done is extensively<br \/>\ndamaging and indeed goes to uproot the foundational integrity of that<br \/>\nagency of law enforcement. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is important that this vital agency of government charged with the<br \/>\nstatutory responsibility of waging a fight against economic crimes is not<br \/>\nallowed to get away with such monumental economic scam of dominating the<br \/>\nworkforce with persons from a section of Nigeria to the total negation of<br \/>\nthe Federal Character Principles enshrined in Section 14 (3).<\/p>\n<p>HURIWA stated that the above mentioned constitutional provision states<br \/>\nthus: \u201cThe composition of the Government of the Federation or any of its<br \/>\nagencies and the conduct of its affairs shall be carried out in such a<br \/>\nmanner as to reflect the federal character of Nigeria and the need to<br \/>\npromote national unity, and also to command national loyalty, thereby<br \/>\nensuring that there shall be no predominance of persons from a few State<br \/>\nor from a few ethnic or other sectional groups in that Government or in<br \/>\nany of its agencies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Rights group said if the relevant supervisory bodies such as the<br \/>\nNational Assembly and the Federal Character Commission should let this<br \/>\nrecruitment scam go without redress then the organized civil society<br \/>\ncommunity will head to the Court of law to use the instrumentality of the<br \/>\nNigerian Court system in line with Section 6 of the Constitution to<br \/>\noverturn this illegality in EFCC.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Urges NASS To Jettison His Confirmation The National Assembly has been called upon to expeditiously order the thorough, open and dispassionate probe of the recent recruitment exercise conducted by the&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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