The House of Representatives, says the use of waiver in recruitment exercises in Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA) of the federal government will noonger be tolerated.
The Chairman of the Ad hoc Committee on Job Racketeering, and Mismanagement of IPPIS, Hon. Yusuf Gagdi, stated this on Monday when the Registrar of National Post-Graduate Medical College (NPGMC) appeared before it in Abuja.
The lawmakers noted that Chief Executive Officers, Directors among others have abused the use of waiver by employing cronies, families and those in their good books.
The Green Chamber noted that the abolishment of waiver became imperative because it breeds nepotism, favourItism and is subject to abuse.
Gagdi stated categorically that recruitment in MDAs should henceforth be advertised, insisting that any recruitment without advertising the same is unjustifiable.
The chairman explained that any recruitment that would not follow due process in advertising such on the pages of national dailies would no longer be tolerated.
He was of the opinion that granting a waiver in recruitment exercises by any MDAs was not for the good of the country, adding that waiver had been severely abused by various MDAs.
Gagdi therefore described the action of NPGMC as unjustifiable by engaging in selective recruitment I’m part of the country without considering others.
He stated: “Your action is unjustifiable, you have not respected the federal character. Your nominal roll keeps increasing while staff keep retiring.
On your recruitment list you have Borno, Yobe, Plateau that are not represented in your organisation.
“In your recruitment in 2021, you did not know that Sokoto, Borno, Kano, Jigawa, Bauchi among others have zero.
He said, “We will abolish the use of waivers, it is not for the good of this country, when they give you waiver, it is subject to abuse.”
To this end, the lawmaker called on MDAs to respect federal character in carrying out recruitment exercises to enable participation across board and to encourage fairness, justice and equity.
He queried why the recruitments carried out were not shared among the state with zero representation.
Speaking, the Registrar, NPGMC, Prof. Fatiu Arogundade, said all anomalies in the previous recruitment as noted by the lawmakers would be corrected.
He said: “It is not that the college has not involved the people of the North East, we apologised and we will correct the anomaly in subsequent recruitment