The National Public Relations Officer of the
Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, Mr.
Emmanuel Okeh, has said that the corp has
refunded a total of N90m to jobseekers who were
defrauded by recruitment scammers.
Okeh also said that the leadership of the NSCDC
have also arrested not less 600 persons involved
in defrauding unsuspecting jobseekers with fake
recruitment exercises purported for the various
services in the country from 2008.
He urged Nigerians to note that recruitment into the
NSCDC would not involve payment of money,
purchase of forms by applicants or direction of
applications to any website to make payments.
He stressed that the Corp would advertise in some
media houses at the appropriate time whenever the
time came for recruitment.
The Civil Defence Spokesman who is also the
Secretary of the Spokespersons of Security and
Response Agencies, made the comment while
speaking on the activities of the corp in a media
interactive forum organised by the Coordinator of I-
Nigerian, Mr. Ada Apiafi in Abuja on Wednesday.
He said, “The issue of employment racketeering
has been a thing of worry to the Corp because
everyday we keep hearing about people calling;
myself at least, before coming here this morning at
least I have received about 15 calls from people: ‘I
learnt they say they are recruiting, I learnt your
form is on line, Sir when can I bring my cv?’
“Even some of our colleagues come to find out that
they call them that they should bring their
candidates and they should come and pay money
into a specific account.
“Now from 2008, when the issue of racketeering
started, not just in the service alone, the ones in
the name of immigration, Customs, Police and
other agencies, including private organisation that
we investigated, we have had not less than 6,000
persons that we have arrested and so far we have
refunded money from those who are involved to
the tune of N90 million which we have given to
Nigerians that were defrauded.
“Now our cry all the time and what we keep telling
and informing Nigerians is that recruitment into
services in Nigeria is not by payment of money by
anybody. Each service has its own mode of
recruitment.
“The NSCDC has never been involved in any online
recruitment, and we have no intention of asking
anybody to pay money. We don’t sell forms and we
don’t open website for people to go and pay online.
When it is the appropriate time for recruitment, the
various media houses that are to be used to inform
them would carry out the recruitment process,” he
said.
He recalled the arrest of one Michael in Abuja who
ran a syndicate that specialises in defrauding
unsuspecting job seekers and traced the sum of
N495m and another $950,000 to his account.
He said that the suspect was being investigated for
other offences especially money laundering in view
of the funds traced into his Dollar account.
Okeh said that the fraudster who was said to have
opened 50 accounts in different names had been
handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission for further investigation and
prosecution.
The NSCDC Spokesman also said that the
organisation arrested a total of 380 oil pipeline and
critical infrastructure vandals from January to July
2014. http://www.punchng.com/news/nscdc-refunds-n90m-to-defrauded-jobseekers/

GEJ at it again, propaganda for 2015, the one they collected for the immigration exam, have them returned it? Talkless of all the money that honourables and senators have extorted from people seeking civil service jobs. mshewwwwwwwwwwwwww

GEJ, deceiving Nigerians since 2010...

i have zero sympathy for those scammed . they are greedy fools

Politics is very interesting....... APC is reducing school fees, PDP on job relief. Very soon, Abba Moro will talk abt d forgotten Immigration recruitment exercise. Labaran Maku, Doyin Okupe n Reuben Abati will lead daily headlines. We are waiting and watching.
Who is fooling who