Crisis rocks Senate over secret recruitment
Crisis is allegedly brewing in the Senate over the employment slots allocated to the lawmakers by some federal agencies.
Some aggrieved senators have vowed to resist the sharing method allegedly adopted by the leadership of the Senate to allocate the slots.
Investigations by our correspondent revealed that the agencies gave the legislators the slots through their leaders.
But the slots were allegedly shared among the 10-member body of principal officers.
According to sources, many of the lawmakers are particularly bitter that their leaders allegedly shared the 100 slots allegedly given the Senate by the Federal Inland Revenue Service among themselves.
An aggrieved senator from the South-West, said on condition of anonymity, “We were given 100 slots by the FIRS but our leaders shared the slots among themselves.”
A ranking senator from the North-West said, “We have information that one of the leaders gave 26 slots to people in his senatorial district. There is a problem in th…
