Following his failure to clearly define the mandate of his Secretariat, the Mandate Secretary in charge of Area Council Services Secretariat of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), Hon. Ibrahim Abubakar Dantsoho, has come under heavy fire from federal lawmakers.
Because of his inadequate defense of the Secretariat’s budget and his team’s lack of cooperation, the Secretary almost left the National Assembly after testifying before the FCT Senate Committee.
One of the Mandate Secretaries named by FCT Minister of State Dr. Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, Dantsoho, was warned to respect the senate’s authority or risk being escorted out of the meeting.
The warning was directed at the Secretary following his continuous banters and distracting discussion during the briefing.
According to inside sources at the National Assembly, drama ensued when a member of the Committee interrogated Dantsoho on the mandate of his Secretariat, to which he said it was to buy luxury cars for graded chiefs.
Dantsoho, who instantly went blank, told the Committee that his Secretariat is responsible for the purchase of luxurious cars for graded chiefs and building or upgrading of palaces of graded chiefs in various chiefdoms in the territory.
According to him; “Our mandate is to buy cars for our graded chiefs and we also build palaces for them”.
Dissatisfacted with his response, the visibly angry senator described the Secretary as a disappointment in the service of humanity.
“This man who are you? You are a disappointment in the service of humanity”, the lawmakers fired back at him.
Our correspondent reliably gathered that it took the intervention of the Senate Committee chairman on FCT, Sen. Smart Adeyemi, who came in midway to salvage the situation on behalf for the Secretariat.
