The House of Representatives has asked Prof. Isaac Adewole, Minister of Health, to appear before it to explain why the ministry refused to employ 58 applicants.
According to the House, the names of the affected Nigerians were sent to the ministry by the Federal Civil Service Commission.
The summon followed a motion sponsored by Rep. Johnson Agbonayinma (Edo-PDP), unanimously adopted by members through a voice vote.
Agbonayinma recalled that the Federal Government in 2014, directed the Civil Service Commission to employ qualified Nigerian graduates into the service, to cushion the effects of unemployment in the country.
“The Federal Ministry of Health documented about 58 of the candidates that were sent to the ministry but it refused to absorb them into the system’’, he said.
He said the aim of employing those concerned was for government to reduce unemployment to the barest minimum.
Agbonayinma lamented that while other ministries, departments and agencies accepted the candidates sent to them by the commission; the Ministry of Health was yet to absorb the 58 Nigerians.
The lawmaker, who expressed concern that the 2015 Appropriation Act had captured the salaries and emoluments of the 58 concerned Nigerians, also wondered what happened to the fund appropriated for them.
Speaker Yakubu Dogara, therefore, referred the matter to the Committees on Health Services and Federal Character for further legislative action. (NAN)
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