The House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on Job Racketeering is scrutinizing the bank accounts of the 36 federal Commissioners of the Federal Character Commission (FCC) over alleged selling of employment slots.

The Chairman of the Ad-hoc Committee Mr Yusuf Gagdi, disclosed this at the continuation of the investigative hearing of the panel in Abuja.

Mr Gagdi said the panel was verifying the bank accounts of the Commissioners as well as those of certain individuals that have been serving as links to sell jobs in federal agencies.

“We have put in a machinery to scrutinise all the 36 Commissioners since a lot of things and activities have happened in FCC. We are studying their accounts vis-a-vis the accounts of individuals that are serving as fronts to selling slots.

The chairman also expressed displeasure over the refusal of a former IPPIS desk officer with the FCC who, currently works with the Asset Management Company of Nigeria, Haruna Kolo at the investigation for the fourth time.

He said: “We are going to force Haruna Kolo to appear in whatever way and we are going to do that. He cannot come here and say whatever he wants to say and disappear.

“We asked for evidence from him, he did not give any evidence so we want to further interact with him to get more facts and he is not forthcoming.

Kolo had appeared before the panel last Monday when he told lawmakers that he had been collecting between N1 million to N1.5 million for the FCC Chairman, Muheeba Dankaka from individual applicants before he left the Commission.

The Ad-hoc Committee had last week issued a warrant of arrest on Kolo, a former staff of FCC who allegedly acted as a middleman for the selling of employment slots at the Commission.

Mr. Gagdi also disclosed that the probe of the FCC would henceforth be held behind closed doors so that the investigation does not detract from the objective of dealing with over 600 other agencies.