STAFF OF DISOWNED AGENCY PFIC SPEAK ABOUT ADEYEMI AND HIS OPERATIONS 

According to an online newspaper, PREMIUM TIMES, three senior civil servants, whom the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, OAGF, deployed to work at the now-disowned agency, offer a window into what the PFIPC’s activities looked like before it was shut down.

The three civil servants – Ojo Victor, Omeh Amarachukwu, and Wakili Saidu – were questioned by the investigating police officers and have been listed as witnesses in the case filed against Mr Adeyemi.

In their separate statements, written at the police headquarters on 10 November 2025, they described their work at the agency, their encounters with Mr Adeyemi, and what they thought of the agency.

HOW THEY WERE POSTED

In a letter dated 4 April 2025, Mr Adeyemi, using PFIPC letter-headed paper, wrote to the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF), requesting staff to fill five vacancies, including a Principal Accountant, Accountant I, Principal Auditor, Senior Auditor, and Auditor I.

“Kindly note that the office has the requirement(s)/conditions of self-accounting status according to FR1602(2009),” parts of the letter he signed, reads.

In another letter on the same date, Mr Adeyemi wrote to the Accountant General of the Federation, requesting the deployment of Ogaba Harry and Esther Orji from the Office of the Chief Economic Adviser to the President (OCEAP) to the PFIPC.

“We are aware that there is a need to formally deploy (post) them for the purpose of records and documentation,” he said.

It was yet unclear exactly when the deployments were approved but PREMIUM TIMES reported that at least three civil servants from OAGF were deployed on 28 August, 2025, according to a posting letter published on the OAGF website.

The three civil servants deployed are: Ojo Victor, 55, an Assistant Chief Accountant (ACA) in the accounts department; Omeh Amarachukwu, 40, an internal auditor; and Wakili Saidu, 45, also in the audit department.

What they say

In their separate statements, the three civil servants said they printed and took their posting letters to Mr Adeyemi on 1 September 2025. He received the letters and asked them to resume a week later on 8 September 2025. When they resumed, they were given an open office to share, they said. But they were never assigned any tasks or given any documentation, as they had expected.

“We are three officers posted at the same time, and when we resumed on 8 September, the three of us were given an open office where the three of us were sitting down without doing anything,” said Mr Victor. “Since then, there has been no correspondence between me and the DG,” Mr Saidu wrote.

Mr Victor also wrote that: “I have not been documented, and no schedule has been given to me since my assumption, which I find very strange.” Mr Amarachukwu said the officials have made complaints, hoping to get another posting, but it never came. “I only go to work once a week, the reason being that we have done nothing since we were posted there,” Mr Amarachukwu said.

Mr Victor said he comes to the office once or twice a week “just to show our face in the office because there was no assignment or schedule for any of us to do.”

Mr Saidu said he reports for work three days a week – Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

However, all three of them said they had never heard of the agency before their posting there.

“I have never heard of that agency until I saw my name posted to the agency,” said Mr Saidu.