The Chairman of the Federal Character Commission (FCC), Dr Muheeba Dankaka has been speaking on how she tackled job-racketeering in the Commission when she assumed office.
This is in contrary to false reports linking her to job-racketeering in the Commission. Investigations have revealed that the FCC Chairman’s first major assignment when she assumed office was to tackle the menace of job-racketeering which has been a thriving ‘business’ before she came into office.
Speaking with journalists on her third anniversary in office, Dr Dankaka stated that the first thing she did was to stop illegal and indiscriminate correspondence with Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs).
“I also found out that some Members have been visiting federal agencies in their respective states which was against our procedure for committee system of operation. I put a stop to these unauthorized visits also,” she said.
According to her, “the motives behind the visits were not unconnected with the desire to perpetuate the unethical practices that pervaded the Commission before our assumption of office”.
Another step taken by Dr Dankaka to tackle the menace of job-racketeering in the Commission was movement of staff.
According to her, staff hitherto connected with recruitment activities in the Department of Monitoring and Enforcement were redeployed to other departments and replaced with new ones.
“With these two major decisions, the arrow heads in job-racketeering were displaced and plans for sharp and unethical practices were aborted,” she said.
However, her desire to eradicate the menace of job-racketeering in the Commission did not go without stiff opposition from the perpetrators.
“The restructuring I did was not without a fight back. That exercise was the beginning of the conspiracy against me.
“It’s ridiculous and shameful that it’s those who are involved in the menace are not pointing accusing fingers at me because I burst their bubbles,” she said.
