Head of Service Denies Giving Office Space to Fake PFIPC as Evidence of Signage and Arrest at Federal Secretariat Surfaces
The Head of Service of the Federation, Didi Esther Walson-Jack, has strongly denied allocating office space or deploying any staff to the fraudulent Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council, even as mounting evidence confirms that the fake agency not only occupied a physical office at the Federal Secretariat but also mounted its signage and received a whopping ₦1.32 billion in the 2026 budget. Appearing before the House of Representatives ad-hoc committee investigating the scandal, Walson-Jack insisted that her office never approved any physical space for the PFIPC, clarifying that the approvals she granted were strictly limited to establishment and provisional recruitment waivers, which she now admits were based on fake documents presented by the agency's representatives. She conceded that her office failed to carry out proper due diligence, allowing the fraudulent entity to obtain key authorisations, but she maintained that the office space in question actual...