The Senate is set to throw out the report by the committee set up to look into the recruitment program by the national immigration service which led to the death of 17 applicants in several centers across Nigeria.
The Senator Abubakar Bagudu led committee was inaugurated on Tuesday, March 18, 2014 to comprehensively look into the recruitment and events that led to the death of the applicants.
Investigations say that the report might not be considered for review by the legislature because the report came behind schedule in May. It also says that the report was sent it verbatim without executive summary which should contain a recommendation.
The Scoop reports:
It was also gathered that the committee allegedly took into consideration, the fact that the Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro, who spearheaded the tragic exercise, is believed to be the political godson of the Senate President, David Mark.
An unnamed senator who spoke with The Punch said “The Senate President who many believed influenced the appointment of Abba Moro as a minister in 2011, cannot do anything to hurt his political godson. Nothing can come out of the report because the minister involved is widely known to be like a political son to the Senate President apart from the fact that the duo are from the same ethnic group in Benue State.”
The senator further alleged that some of the committee members did not see the report before it was submitted to the Senate
However, the Chairman of the Committee, Bagudu, said on Monday that no member of the committee could claim that he didn’t see the report before it was submitted to the Senate. He said, “As far as I am concerned, every member of the committee made inputs into the report at the compilation stage as regards findings made about the recruitment tragedy and even contributed to the recommendations arrived at, at the end of the day.”
He claimed that since his committee had done its job, it was left for the appropriate committee to present it on the floor of the Senate for consideration and approval.
