Plot to Blackmail Oyo-Ita Uncovered

Detractors of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration’s anti-corruption effort may have found a new target in the Head of Service of the Federation (HoSF), Mrs Winifred Ekanem Oyo-Ita, who has vigorously and courageously pursued reform in the Federal Civil Service.

Reports suggest a grand plan to carry out a smear campaign and portray the HoSF as undermining cohesion and discipline in the civil service.

The fulcrum of this plot is the appointment of Mr Olusegun Adekunle, a long-time Director of Administration, as the Permanent Secretary (General Services Office- GSO), Office of Secretary to Government of the Federation (OSGF).

Her detractors are accusing her of breaching civil service rules by appointing Adekunle as PS GSO above other permanent secretaries considered as his senior in the service.
Those behind the plot are allegedly planning to blackmail the HoSF into re-deploying Adekunle so as to make way for one of them to occupy the seat, a position considered by civil servants as “powerful and juicy”.

THISDAY, February 16, 2018

 

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