Tenure of Acting Director General of National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Dr Ashiru Daura, and two other directors of the agency has been enmeshed in a controversy, as document available to Blueprint suggests they should not remain in office.
Daura, according to the document, was appointed a director on April 1, 2005, indicating he was due for retirement April last year, in line with the policy on tenure of eight years for directors in federal civil service, introduced in 2009.
Similarly, the Director of Corporate Strategy and Research Department, Mr. E. Ezekwesili, also resumed his appointment the same day with Daura.
The Director of Standard Guidelines and Regulation Department, Mr. Inye Kem-Abonta, who was appointed much earlier, has been a director for over 11 years.
Daura was appointed the DG of NITDA on acting capacity last year, when the former DG’s tenure expired, as he was the most senior.
Some workers at the agency, when contacted by our correspondent, said Daura’s stay in office was over, as he appointed to act because he was a director.
But when Blueprint called the man in the eyes of the storm, he said the policy on eight-year tenure for civil service directors was not applicable to NITDA, because, according to him, it is a research institute.
