THE House of Representatives on Tuesday gave the Head of Service of the Federation (HoSF), Mrs Winifred Oyo-Ita up till Wednesday to appear before it with all documents relating to the further extension of the service granted to the Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Education, Dr Jamila Shu’arau or face severe sanction.
The Honourable Zakari Mohammed led House Committee on Basic Education gave the ultimatum in Abuja on Tuesday, when the HoSF appeared before it without the documents as earlier request.
The Committee members expressed their anger over the failure of the HoSF to come along with the documents and warned her to come with them if any by 12 00 pm on Thursday, saying that the matter would be thoroughly looked into and disposed with it.
While ruling on the matter, the chairman of the Committee, vowed that the Committee would pursue it to logical conclusion no matter whose horse is gorged in order to put an end into such practices as lawmakers
According to him, “we as parliaments will pursue this matter to a logical conclusion, we are not happy with the manner the Head of Service is handling this matter
“This Thursday will be the last day we will deal with this matter, you must come with all the require documents, you must tell this Committee everything you know about the matter”.
When some members asked the HoSF if she had any reason why she would not be able to come with the documents as requested to disclose such reasons to the Committee, the Chairman of the Committee overruled them.
According to him,” We don’t want to know if there is any reason or reasons now please, she must appear here by 12 noon on Thursday
The HoSF had earlier claimed that she acted on the recommendation of the Chief of Staff, COS to President Mohammodu Buhari, Abba kiyari to extend the Service of the Permanent Secretary while the COS also claimed that the President acted on the approval based on the recommendation of the HoSF
She however agreed to appear before the Committee at the appointed day and time
and then