The House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating the alleged operations of the controversial Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) has declared the appointment letter presented by the council’s self-acclaimed Director-General, Adeniyi Adeyemi, as fake.
The committee made the declaration on Wednesday during the continuation of its investigative hearing in Abuja.
Chairman of the committee, Yusuf Gagdi, said the appointment letter and the purported Act establishing the council had been confirmed as forged by relevant government agencies.
According to Gagdi, the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs. Didi Esther Walson-Jack, who appeared before the committee for the second time, also affirmed that the documents submitted by Adeyemi were not authentic.
“It was established that the so-called letter of appointment was fake, confirmed by different agencies, and the Act presented to the Head of Service was equally fake, forged by the DG; it was established,” Gagdi said.
Walson-Jack appeared before the panel in compliance with its summons to provide her final submissions on the matter.
Also present at the hearing were Deputy Commissioner of Police Olufemi Akinola and Assistant Commissioner of Police Bashir Abdullahi, representing the Inspector-General of Police.
As of the time of filing this report, Adeyemi had yet to appear before the committee despite an earlier directive ordering the Inspector-General of Police to produce him.
The committee had on Monday described the establishment and operation of the purported PFIPC as a serious breach of due process and directed the Inspector-General of Police to produce Adeyemi within 48 hours for questioning.
