The Senate resumes plenary on Tuesday, July 7 and is expected to address the controversy over a N1.3bn allocation to the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), an agency the Presidency says doesn’t legally exist.
A forged appointment letter, bearing a falsified signature of Chief of Staff Femi Gbajabiamila, was accepted by the Civil Service Headquarters without proper verification, giving Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi Mathew, the fake council’s director general, an office at the Federal Secretariat and lending the fake agency an air of legitimacy for over a year.
The scandal, first flagged by the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission last October, has drawn demands for probes and disclosure from SERAP, CHRICED, Atiku Abubakar, and a PDP faction, with some calling for Gbajabiamila to step aside pending investigation. Adeyemi is due in court July 27; two alleged accomplices remain at large.
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