Senate Threatens To Sack MTEF/FSP Sessions Absentees

On Thursday, the Senate declared that the heads of government ministries, departments, and agencies who failed to show up for the 2024–2026 MTEF/FSP interactive sessions need to be fired.

The heads of government agencies now have to physically attend MTF/FSP sessions, as mandated by the upper legislative house, which also urged President Bola Tinubu to fire any unprofessional government employees.

The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, read the riot act at the official opening of the interactive session co-organized by its committees on finance, appropriations, national planning, and local and foreign debts. He insisted that any head of a government agency that chooses not to attend the session will be fired.

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He said: “If you don’t plan how to succeed then you have planned to fail. I therefore remind our committee that any serious appointee or any head of any agency that is interested in the success of President Bola Tinubu’s administration ought to be here.

“The chairman of the lead committee ( Finance), should give me the list of all the Heads of Agencies that you invited who have failed to show up in this session, this is the beginning of their failure in their various offices.

“Any head of agency that sends representation here is not a serious person and therefore, the President must take a second look at such a person’ s appointment.

“It is not a threat but the truth. I shelved even my appointment to appear in Owerri today for the final rally of my party and all other schedules that I have to make sure that I appear so that we can strategize on how we can succeed.”