National Assembly has ordered the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) to take over the recruitment process of the 774,000 temporary federal jobs from the Minister of State for Labour, Employment and Productivity, Festus Keyamo.
The Senate and the House of Representatives took the same position following motions passed in both chambers.
Chairman, Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, Opeyemi Bamidele, brought the motion through a point of order, to the Senate.
He drew the attention of the red chamber to Festus Kayamo’s statement that President Buhari had asked him to proceed with the recruitment process.
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Bamidele noted that Keyamo has erred by taking over an assignment which was constitutionally assigned to the NDE through the Revised 2020 Appropriation Act.
He stated that the Federal Parliament approved the sum of N52bn for the NDE to execute the exercise but lamented that the Labour ministry, through Keyamo, had hijacked it.
Bamidele said the Revised Appropriation Act should be binding on the Federal Government and its agencies.
The Senate, therefore, resolved that the NDE should take full charge of the implementation while the ministry would play a supervisory role.
The upper also said its committees would carry out necessary oversight functions on the recruitment process.
Both motions passed after they were put to a voice vote by Senate President Ahmad Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila, speaker of the house.
