The Permanent Secretary, Ministry
of Interior, Mr Abubakar Magaji, has owned up to administrative lapses in the
purported reinstatement of dismissed former Chairman, Pension Reform Task Team,
Abdulrasheed Maina.
Magaji conceded the responsibility when
he appeared before members of House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee
investigating the “disappearance, reappearance, reinstatement and promotion of
Maina’’ in Abuja on Thursday.
According to him, the reference letter
made to inform the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation that Maina
resumed duty was a letter sent to the Federal Civil Service Commission.
“When I observed this upon
resumption from sick leave, I quickly replied to the Head of Civil Service of the
Federation, Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita, apologising to her about the reference
letter.
“But service is an institution, whatever
happened in the process of the minutes, the permanent secretary is the head of
the administration and I am here to take responsibility.
“Whatever the Interior Ministry has done
wrongly in accordance with the way the administrative matter has been done to
the end of this matter, I take responsibility because I cannot reject.
“I am the permanent secretary, head of
administration and I take responsibility for any administrative wrongdoing that
Ministry of Interior has done,’’ Magaji said.
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