All recruitment, conversion and promotion exercise in the ECOWAS Parliament has been temporary suspended pending the outcome of the audit report.
The First Deputy Speaker of the ECOWAS Parliament, Hon. Wase, made this known while presiding over the closing ceremony of its 2022 First Ordinary Session in Abuja. During the closing ceremony, he ruled in favor of the motion for suspension of all exercises.
A Nigerian lawmaker at the ECOWAS Parliament, Hon. Awajim Abiante moved the motion to suspend the recruitment and promotion in ECOWAS Parliament and was seconded by Sen. Biodun Olujimi, a Nigerian Lawmaker at the Parliament. The motion was also supported by Hon. Yousoufa Bida and agreed by the house.
According to Wase, the process should be suspended for the sake of equity and fairness, while the Bureau expedite actions in investigating the audit reports so that community citizens do not suffer unjustly. His words: “I want to believe that all of us that are seated here are holding these positions based on trust and we are not going to betray that trust, your confidence.
“When I mentioned that we are going to go into that report of course, the other citizens out there are also our citizens and we will not like them to suffer unjustly because of one little problem or the other.
“So the first thing I will beg is that you allow the Beureu to consider, look into the report of the audit and any other matter that has been raised regarding the recruitment exercise.
“And this we will have to do it with all sense of diligence and integrity to ensure that the right thing is done within the shortest period of time.
“I will believe that of your very own exalted office that you are here and on behalf of you that the motion is in order but that you allow the Bureau to look into it.
“So that we do not unnecessarily delay the process and then report back to the plenary at the next sitting”, Wase said.
Earlier, Abiante while moving the motion said that “I as Awaji-InobekAbiante a lawmaker from Nigeria.
“Wish to move that all processes, actions, activities, aimed and geared toward the recruitment, promotion, conversion, interview and any other related matter be suspended.
“Until all issues that have been raised, all petitions that have been brought forth, all protests, all misgivings are comprehensively resolved and the Parliament is so briefed.
“I am bringing this up because I have further information that letters have already been served in this regards and if Parliament does not intervene, we might be chasing shadows at the end of the day.
“It might be that these processes have been concluded and they will just report to us. that is my position and I so move,” Abiante moved.
