A mild drama ensued on Tuesday, as a Commissioner with the Federal Character Commission (FCC), exposed Chairman of the Commission, Muheeda Dankaka before a committee of the House of Representatives.
Dankaka was expected to appear before an ad-hoc committee investigating mismanagement in personnel recruitment, racketeering in Federal Ministries, Department and Agencies, as well as gross mismanagement of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), headed by Hon. Yusuf Gagdi.
During the engagement, however, one of the Commissioners in attendance, Moses Anaughe, countered his colleagues, who earlier told the panel that the Chairman was sick and had an appointment with her medical doctor, saying she had the penchant of lying to avoid appearing before the National Assembly.
“Now if you send somebody to her office, maybe before they call her or send her a message she will start running to come. As we speak now, she is in her office as this has been her usual practice,” he said.
According to Anaughe, this was her usual character of avoiding invitations by the National Assembly on job racketeering which she is guilty of, adding that this was not the first time such was happening, as her usual habit was to send commissioners to represent her at investigative hearings.
The committee issued a summon against the agency’s head to appear unfailingly on Wednesday.
Another commissioner representing Taraba state, Armayau Abubakar, who represented the chairman with a written letter, stated that she was unavoidably absent due to a medical appointment with her doctor, appealing that the Commission be given a new date to come with the required documents as requested by the commission; and the chairman of the adhoc committee, Rep. Yusif Gagdi moved that their request be granted.
But when the Commissioner from Delta came in, he stood to introduce himself and said that the Chairman Dankaka was currently in the office and not in the hospital but in the office as at 12 noon when he left the office.
“I want to stress that this is her usual excuse for various committees that invited her. It should be on record. If she wants to collect 10 percent of employment she insists that the Chief Executive must come one on one with her. Why is she not here? She must appear before the committee and give her stewardship for 3 years,” Anaughe stated. (Blueprint)
