The Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Mr. Peter Jack has been asked to proceed on indefinite suspension over what was described as “misconduct”.
The suspension takes immediate effect from 20/01/2016.
In a statement by the Special Assistant on Media to the Minister of Communications, Victor Oluwadamilare, the suspension became imperative on the strength of deluge of petitions regarding several alleged wrong doings in NITDA and subsequent preliminary findings of an Investigative Committee set up by the Ministry.
These petitions against the embattled NITDA DG bothers on illegal employments not approved by the appropriate authority and procurements carried out in direct contraventions of laid down rules and procedure unknown to Civil Service administration in Nigeria.
Other infractions identified by the Investigative Committee made up of three senior Ministry officials include unauthorised illegal recruitment of additional staff totalling 245 within a spate of seven months.
According to the statement, other findings by the committe include: “as at 29th May, 2015, NITDA only had a staff complement of 74, but from May, 2015 to 31st December, 2015, additional 245 staff were employed in questionable circumstances despite clear instruction from the Ministry directing suspension of employment in the Agency”.
“These disclosure were deduced from the records provided by Mr Jack, although he was unable to provide concrete information on whose authority he embarked on the massive recruitment and who granted him the authority for officials to be seconded to NITDA from other MDAs”, the statement added.
On the alleged financial misdemeanour, the Committee opined that the situation in the Agency would require a more detailed professional auditing of NITDA’s finances to determine the true state of the financial health of the Agency.
Consequently, the DG has been Asked to. Vacate office so as to allow for further independent investigations of his stewardship in the last three years.
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