The staffers, who took the action under the aegis of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, delivered a written petition at the headquarters of the EFCC yesterday in Abuja. The chairman of the association at the commission, Promise Chukwu, told the Commission that the petition had become necessary in view of the happenings during his first tenure as the DG, which ended on May 5, 2018.
The workers had protested the renewal of Bala’s tenure as the director-general of the commission by President Muhammadu Buhari.
According to Chukwu, the petition is in tandem with their ongoing protest, saying, “we have brought our petition to the EFCC, we believe that this agency will investigate his stewardship because we believed that what we have in this document today, that most of them have failed financial integrity test.
“That is why we want to officially submit it to the Commission to assist in sanitising the Energy Commission,” he said.
He explained that some of the alleged financial mismanagement by the director-general included mismanagement of international-donor-funded projects under United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). He also pointed out that mystery is surrounding about $1 million Lake Chad Basin Project funded by Africa Development Bank.
“Similarly, millions of naira have been budgeted and squandered under the National Energy Data Project.
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