President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday approved the immediate redeployment of the Director General of the National Youth Service Commission (NYSC), Brigadier Johnson Olawunmi from the NYC to the Nigerian Army School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, as acting commandant.
In his place, the president approved the appointment Brigadier-General S.Z. Kazaure as the new NYSC Director General.
Huhuonline.com investigations revealed that Olawunmi’s sudden redeployment is not unconnected with his revelation that the Federal Government was unable to pay the corps members’ allowance. The timing of Olawunmi’s redeployment gives credence to Huhuonline.com’s finding.
The former NYSC DG was redeployed only a few days after he exposed the inability of the Federal Government to pay monthly allowance of corps members
Olawunmi had taken to his official facebook page to announce the reasons for the lingering delay in the payment of the March allowances of serving corps members.
In the message, Olawunmi had expressed regrets at the situation, blaming it on Treasury Single Account and the Central Bank approved GIFMIS.
“My dear Corps members, l sincerely regret the late payment of your March allowance. For avoidance of doubt, your allowances do not come to the NYSC as the scheme has no account. Once it is approved by the Federal Ministry of Finance, it goes to the Central Bank account from where it is disbursed directly to Corps members’ account. It is the beauty of the Treasury Single Account and that explains why you get the whole allowance in full without any charges.”
“As at now, we are liaising vigorously with the Ministry so that fund is released to the CBN GIFMIS account and once it is done, it takes us just minutes through the online platform to remit straight to all the 244,532 Corps members in service. We are equally mounting pressure on the Ministry to ensure that the April allowance for 2015 Batch A and the outstanding one month allowance for Stream 2, Batch A 2015 is also paid as quickly as possible.”
These statements seem to have embarrassed the presidency and officials of the Ministry of Finance who oversee the payment. And as a form of punishment, the former DG was slammed with a posting considered ‘far less juicy’ than his last duty post.
