The Chairman of the Ad-hoc Committee investigating job racketeering in Federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies, Yusuf Gagdi on Tuesday summoned all the Vice Chancellors of Federal Universities to appear on Friday to give documentary evidence on the allegation made on bribery and extortion by a member of the Ad-hoc Committee.
According to Vanguard, Gagdi issued the notice during the resumed investigative hearing on job racketeering across over 900 MDAs, dismissed allegation on the alleged extortion of some MDAs.
While debunking an online report titled: ‘Nigerian lawmakers probing job racketeering are extorting money from agencies’, said that the report is unfair to tag all the 37 members of the Ad-hoc Committee as ‘corrupt’, Hon. Gagdi maintained that the Ad-hoc Committee will not be deterred by any form of sponsored blackmail from carrying out its statutory functions.
“Regarding to what we are hearing and what we are seeing is first to tell Nigerians that this Committee is not going to be deterred in discharging its responsibility. Nigerians have hope in this Committee from.the way we are conducting the business of this Committee, everybody is seeing what we are doing.
“We will not compromise by hiding and aiding irregularities going on in the public service.
“No amount of statement accusing this Committee will deter us from doing our job.
“You may have your problem with a member of this Committee but don’t blackmail the entire Committee.
“I’m saying this because I am not being accused of doing anything, but you have issues that you want to make publication about a member of this Committee, sort it out with him, don’t put anything at the faces of members of this Committee.
“We are determined to do justice to Nigerians in the course of this investigation.”
