– Aggrieved Senators Vowed not to adopt the sharing method from senate leadership
– The slots were allegedly shared among the 10-member body of principal officers
– A senator from the South-West, said that on condition of anonymity, “We were given 100 slots by the FIRS but our leaders shared the slots among themselves
Some Senators have Pledged to resist the sharing method allegedly adopted by the leadership of the Senate to allocate recruitment slots from Government Agencies.
Ekohotblog garnered that agencies of Government gave the legislators the slots through their leaders.
But the slots were allegedly shared among the 10-member body of principal officers.
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According to sources who preferred anonymity, said many of the lawmakers are particularly bitter that their leaders allegedly shared the 100 slots allegedly given to the Senate by the Federal Inland Revenue Service among themselves.
An aggrieved senator from the South-West, said that on condition of anonymity, “We were given 100 slots by the FIRS but our leaders shared the slots among themselves.”
A ranking senator from the North-West said, “We have information that one of the leaders gave 26 slots to people in his senatorial district.
“There is a problem in the Senate already, because the leadership has cornered jobs meant for the entire Nigerians.
“Does it mean that you must know a senator before you get a job? Nothing is being done on merit. How will you get the best brains?
“The implication of this is that many people are being offered employment without undergoing any interview.
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“They give them appointment letters because they know the leaders of the Senate. How can a single senatorial district get 26 slots when others have nothing?”
But a Senator from the South-East, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said that he expected every legislator to have been given a slot.
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