The House of Representatives at the plenary, yesterday urged the Head of Service of the Federation to direct the relocation of the Federal Training Centre (FTC) from Kaduna to Maiduguri.
It also mandated its committees on Public Service Matters and Legislative Compliance to ensure implementation.
The resolution followed the adoption of a motion sponsored by Hon. Ahmed Satomi.
Moving the motion, Satomi noted that the FTC was first established in Lagos in 1957 to facilitate a deliberate policy of Nigerianisation of the public service, as well as accelerating the pace of training of clerical and secretarial staff in the public service generally.
He said the House is aware that the FTC Kaduna was established in 1960 to cater for federal institutions and departments in defunct Northern Nigeria, to motivate and encourage public servants of Northern Nigeria to undergo professional training to fill up several vacancies that became vacant with the gradual withdrawal of expatriate staff in the various levels of the public service.
He recalled that in February 2012 due to the impact of insurgency in the North-east geo-political zone, the Maiduguri Centre was temporarily relocated to Kaduna pending the return of normalcy.
The lawmaker expressed concern that many participants and students drawn from various states of the North-east awere compelled to take the risk of travelling to Kaduna for training at the centre.
He also expressed concerns by the rising level of insecurity in Kaduna State due to the activities of bandits, kidnappers, criminals and terrorists and the risk being taken by students undergoing courses at the Kaduna centre from the North–east states.
He advised on the need to relocate the centre from Kaduna to Maiduguri following the return of normalcy and given the level of peace presently experienced in Maiduguri even much more than Kaduna.
Also at the plenary, the House adopted a motion sponsored by Hon. Balarebe Shehu Kakale, and mandated its committees on Healthcare Services, Health Institutions, Appropriations, Finance, Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring, Science and Technology, Labour and Productivity and Ad-hoc Committee on COVID–19 to liaise with the Federal Ministry of Health, Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Labour and Productivity, Science and Technology to devise strategies towards strengthening and developing alternative healthcare delivery in the country and report back within four weeks for further legislative action.
