Keyamo refuses to bow to Senate pressure, direct committees to continue working
Keyamo refuses to bow to Senate pressure, direct committees to continue working Festus Keyamo,Minister of State for Labour & Employment Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, SAN, has directed all the committees he inaugurated Monday, to recruit 774,000 jobs in all the local governments nationwide, to proceed with their work in spite of the disagreement he had on the project with the joint Committee of the Senate and the House of Representatives earlier, Tuesday. “Only Mr. President can stop their work,” the Minister said in a statement issued on Tuesday June 30, 2020. The Minister who was not pleased with the Senate committee to suspend the recruitment exercise said that he would rather leave the assignment if the President so directs rather than bow to the will of the legislators to suspend the exercise. In the statement titled, “PURPORTED SUSPENSION OF SELECTION PROCESS OF 774,000 JOBS BY NATIONAL ASSEMBLY COMMITTEES,” signed by the Minister himself, he