PETITION ON ILLEGAL TERMINATION OF FEDERAL CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION APPOINTMENTS BY CHAIRMAN FCSC AND ACCOUNTANT GENERAL OF THE FEDERATION

Dear Sir,

PETITION AGAINST:  (1) ACCOUNTANT GENERAL OF THE FEDERATION (AGF), ALHAJI AHMED IDRIS ON HIS WILLFUL DELAY/REFUSAL OF POSTING OF LAWFULLY ENGAGED ACCOUNTING OFFICERS AND (2) CHAIRMAN FEDERAL CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, DEACONESS JOAN AYO OF FCSC FOR HER ILLEGAL REVOCATION OF LEGITIMATE APPOINTMENTS

We write with due respect to bring to your notice this petition against the above named two (2) Public Officers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for your kind and urgent intervention. This petition relates to issues which involve sizeable number of Nigerians whose careers are being put at stake through malicious actions of the two officers so named above.

We hereby state the facts of the matter as follows:

We were offered career civil service appointment of the Federal Government through the Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC) as Accountants on different levels for the office of the Accountant General of the Federation via offer letters issued by the FCSC in 2014 and signed by the Director (Recruitment and Appointment) for Chairman FCSC.

Both the office of the Head of Service of the Federation and that of the Accountant General were appropriately notified.

In compliance with the civil service practice, all necessary documentations and medicals on us were concluded by the office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF) at their pace in May 2015 and we were appropriately listed for further postings to place of primary assignment. We were equally given our respective file and staff numbers.

Since that May 2015, we have been resuming at the office of the Accountant General in fulfillment of the employment contract already in place but the AGF has willfully failed to approve our posting in spite of our everyday presence and request. They kept on appealing to us to have patience and that they are preparing new intake induction programme.

Curiously, about a week ago, we got the rudest shock that our appointment has been declared irregular and revoked by the Chairman Federal Civil Service Commission. This action is malicious , insensitive and the height of injustice on which we appeal to your good office not to be allowed to stand based on the following:

The appointment followed due process and Letters of Appointment legally and legitimately issued and signed by the Director (Recruitment and Appointment) of the Federal Civil Service Commission for The Chairman FCSC.

The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation wrote to FCSC to confirm the authenticity of the offers which the FCSC confirmed via their Letter References (copy attached).

The office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation also carried out a verification exercise on each of us during Personnel Data Revalidation Exercise and issued to each of us Clearance Certificate in May 2015.

The FCSC again re-verified each of us as employees of the Federal Government of Nigeria and issued us with IPPIS validation receipt in 2015. It is therefore, sheer fraud, ineptitude and indeed inhuman for the same Chairman of Federal Civil Service Commission to say their (FCSC) action is irregular and revoke our appointments after being on this course for close to two years.

Some of our colleagues who are either children of the Directors at the OAGF/FCSC or their close relations have been surreptitiously posted by the AGF. Meanwhile, they have their names confirmed by the FCSC with our own at the same time.

OUR PRAYER:

We beseech you to kindly use your good office to intervene on this matter and ensure that we are properly absorbed into the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation.

  Removal of the irregularities suddenly imposed on our employment by the Chairman of the Federal Civil Service Commission.

  Direct the Accountant General of the Federation to approve and release our postings to our respective offices of primary assignment.

Attached herewith are:

Some verified/authenticated/acknowledged photocopies of correspondences between the Offices of The Accountant General of the Federation and The Federal Civil Service Commission.

The list of 71 (seventy one) officers who went through the same recruitment process with us and about the same time,  that OAGF and FCSC have cleared and are about to be posted because of their strong connections with top officers in the OAGF and FCSC.

     Here listed below are some of the reference numbers;

FCSC/PS/31/1/522/APP/526 in response to OAGF/TRO/657/1/130

FCSC/PS/31/1/522/APP/649 in response to OAGF/TRO/657/1/139

FCSC/R&A/AV/OAGF/740 in response to OAGF/TRO/657/1/147

Content of these letters at various times stated that our appointment letters were duly verified and confirmed to be genuine and authentic.

Thank you very much for your intervention and kind consideration.

Yours faithfully,

Representatives of the Affected Employees of OAGF.