A civil society group, Network for Public Accountability, has appealed to President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, to consider investigating the activities of permanent secretaries and directors in the Federal Civil Service in the country.
According to the group, permanent secretaries and directors in the civil service were responsible mostly for the massive rot and corruption in the system.
The National team leader of the network, Tanko Uke, in a statement, said permanent secretaries, directors in league with accountants had continually exploited the internal mechanisms of the civil service for their enrichment to the detriment of the country’s development.
The group alleged that these public officials were the ones who tutored political appointees on how to pillage the nation’s resources, stressing that if the incoming government was serious about plugging leakages in the system, it had to beam its searchlight on them.
“We want to appeal to the President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari to seriously beam his anti-corruption light on permanent secretaries and directors as well as other highly placed public officials in the civil service.
“It is no longer an illusion that they are the ones that own half of the choice property and estates in Abuja. They are the ones that exploit the internal mechanism of the system for self-enrichment as well as tutor political office holders how to circumvent the system.”
According to the statement, a point in question is how a former permanent secretary of the Ministry of Environment, Mr. Taiye Haruna, now in the Head of Service listed projects worth over N500million as executed in Bama, Borno State during the hey days of Boko Haram.
“One wonders how Mr. Haruna and the Ministry of Environment could have executed the project when even the Nigeria Army could not gain a foothold in Bama then,” Uke stated.
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