PFIPC: Head of Civil Service admits due diligence failed, accepts responsibility

The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs Didi Esther Walson-Jack, says owed diligence was not thoroughly carried retired successful the process that led to the designation of the purported Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, PFIPC.

Speaking earlier the House of Representatives advertisement hoc committee investigating the alleged cognition of the purported council, Walson-Jack accepted work for the lapse.

According to the Head of the Civil Service, her bureau relied connected documents that appeared authentic without subjecting them to capable verification.

She told the committee that her bureau had nary crushed to uncertainty the documents astatine the clip due to the fact that they bore the State House logo and what appeared to beryllium a acquainted signature.

Walson-Jack, however, said consequent comparisons with genuine State House correspondence, backed by constabulary forensic findings, confirmed that the signatures were different.

“Due diligence was not thoroughly carried retired to recognise the PFIPC. I guarantee that my bureau would reappraisal our interior verification procedures to marque them much robust and fraud-proof,” she said.

PFIPC: Head of Civil Service admits owed diligence failed, accepts responsibility