Employment Scam: Senate Investigating 300 MDAs – Kuta
Mon, 01/04/2013 - 2:08am | ABU NMODU Leadership NewsPaper

The Senate Committee on Federal Character is investigating three hundred federal ministries, departments and federal government agencies (MDAs) for allegation of collection of money for job and lopsidedness in appointments between 2011 and 2012.

 This was disclosed yesterday by the Senator representing Niger East Senatorial District Dahiru Aweisu Kuta, in an interactive session with journalists in Minna.

 He said that the Committee on Federal Character and Inter- governmental relation that he chairs has also established lopsidedness in appointment into some vacant government positions in its findings so far

The senator stated that it has also found out that  in the employment set up 13 federal government  agencies  top the chart like immigration service  NECO, Civil Defence, NNPC, Custom and Aviation. 

Kuta Stated that from their findings there was an instance that N1.8 million was collected for a job to be given and jobs were traded for the highest bidders as high as N200,000 and above in most of the MDAs.

He said some of the organisations were alerted and those found wanting were flushed out of the system based on the recommendations.

“It is said that because people have been so desperate you can- not blame them, but if this employment scam is not checked one day there will be revolution” he said.

He added, “an agency has 74 vacancies because they have to advertise 400,000 applications were received, you can see why people become so desperate.”

According to him, the federal character is so abused, that “by the time you enter an organisation you need not to be told where the chief executive of the place comes from because from the messenger to the top will be people from his place, it is that bad.”

Kuta stated that section 15 of the law establishing the Federal Character Commission gave the commission power to investigate and prosecute such agencies but lamented  that the commission was not availed  the resources to prosecute such employment scam and irregularities that pervade MDAs.

He said by the time the committee finished its work the Senate would take definite position on the employment scams and also correct some of the lopsidedness discovered.