The Central Bank of Nigeria has said it opted for a secret process of hiring new staff in the past two years because the bank was doing “targeted recruitment”.
The apex bank is at the centre of a recruitment scandal exposed by two newspapers.

A news report published Wednesday by Daily Trust, said the CBN secretly recruited 909 staff between June 2014 and February 2015, in violation of due process and federal character principles.

The report followed a news story by news website, SaharaReporters, on Tuesday, showing how children and relatives of some influential Nigerians, including a nephew of President Muhammadu Buhari, were dubiously and secretly hired by the CBN.

The CBN’s acting Director of Corporate Communications, Isaac Okorafor, told PREMIUM TIMES that the bank did nothing illegal or wrong in hiring without advertising.

“In the last two years, we have had cause to recruit specialists, and what the law says is that if we are going for that kind of recruitment we should apply for waiver, so that we can do targeted recruitment,” Mr. Okoroafor said.

He said the bank obtained waiver from the Federal Character Commission.

“The other issue is that there are states that are not well represented (in the CBN), and in this case we focus on those states to recruits people of certain classes that we used to cover the shortfall in those states,” Mr. Okoroafor said.

Mr. Okoroafor however said he was not ready to confirm or deny the names on the list.

“Is there any qualified Nigerian who does not have the right to work in the CBN?” he asked.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/200268-caught-employment-scam-cbn-explains-secret-recruitment.html

Every qualified Nigerian has right to work in the cbn, but he does not hv the power to do so.

Ooh please shut up

Just watch and see how FCC will deny his sorry asş.

Buhari should order the sack of all 909 staff that were secretly recruited and begin a fresh recruitment process which should be handled by an independent consultant.

MyGeneration:
Every qualified Nigerian has right to work in the cbn, but he does not hv the power to do so.

i dnt undastand d bolded

And the beneficiaries of this targeted recruitment of specialist are children of Atiku, IGP, Dambazau and other influential politicians. The children of people without political influence are not specialist and can't work in CBN. The CBN director of communication must think Nigerians are stupid. This cheap attempt at damage control is arrant nonsense and dead on arrival.

Mr. Okoroafor however said he was not ready to confirm or deny the names on the list.

^^^^Only in Nigeria!

As if say if dem call una today to give una undergee employment, una go reject am.
But I get where the children of the have nots are coming from.

scammers

hardywaltz:
Ooh please shut up

Just watch and see how FCC will deny his sorry asş.

Buhari should order the sack of all 909 staff that were secretly recruited and begin a fresh recruitment process which should be handled by an independent consultant.

You is funny...

definitely only possible in Nigeria.

Oga, I think everybody has been saying the same thing: For 2 years+ CBN has been conducting Targeted Recruitment of who-know-who.

In a Country where there are countless numbers of graduates who have been jobless for years without a fair chance of any form of recruitment into such places.

Even if those fraudulently recruited have the qualification, a fair chance should be given to every qualified citizen of this Country.

Furthermore, activities such as these work against any form of progress in our economy because if such positions are not kept exclusively for the 'influential and rich', there would be some form of stimulation of economic growth following the investment by these people in other sectors of the economy, rather than only feeding fat from national civil service.

I pity youths that believe in FG, are you expecting to be considered for employment before the likes of Atiku, Oyegun, Tinubu' s children and relatives?

hardywaltz:
Ooh please shut up

Just watch and see how FCC will deny his sorry asş.

Buhari should order the sack of all 909 staff that were secretly recruited and begin a fresh recruitment process which should be handled by an independent consultant.

Buhari to sack who? This is 9ja. Nothing like that will happen. If the media doesn`t continue shouting it out, the case will die just like that.

hardywaltz:
Ooh please shut up

Just watch and see how FCC will deny his sorry asş.

Buhari should order the sack of all 909 staff that were secretly recruited and begin a fresh recruitment process which should be handled by an independent consultant.

oh noo...
Did you see the names of the 909? If you did see it, you wont have asked Buhari to sack them.


Many of them are Buhari brothers & sisters.
Many are children of his close friends & members of his government.

Many are children, brothers & sisters of TOP members of APC...

Thats why he cannot sack them. Buhari does not have such BALLS...

What a shallow explanation: you target children of the elites to work with the apex bank without due process and still not ashamed to defend the nonesence.

Selectively empowering those children whose parents have raped this country dry so they can continue where their parents stopped.

This same thing happens in all Govt agencies and Military.

Buhari gov is a mess, cbn gov hs played in2 his enemy hands, soon hausa wl replace n reliev anoda ibo.

No wonder Naira becomes cabbage. Emefiele couldn't be removed and replaced 'cos he is doing favour for the President. This whole affairs happened during election. What a fraud.

We keep going round circles....

emamos:
i dnt undastand d bolded

Every qualified person has the power to work in the cbn but on whose power, if u like have a first class and 15masters degrees if u dont hv power "if u dont know anybody" u wud be wasting ur time.

Deliver us from politician O LORD!

Shame shame shame!

iT happens everwhere in almost all Government agencies. This is not news . . . unfortunately

MyGeneration:

Every qualified person has the power to work in the cbn but on whose power, if u like have a first class and 15masters degrees if u dont hv power "if u dont know anybody" u wud be wasting ur time.

undastd

This is the kind of topical issue one would expect articles be based on!

The elites bastardized the educational standards, sent their kids abroad & they turned to SPECIALISTS.. meanwhile children of the poor with better grades & competence are "advised" to go into farming & not depend on white collar Jobs!!

Atiku has a million companies but still had his daughter take food out the mouth of 11 people, ( 1 direct employee+ 10 dependants) likewise Ibe Kachikwu that is well positioned to get his son a job in the private sector!!

These elites are "united" now & will only be "divided" when the time to exploit our differences for their selfish motives crop up!!

Youths of Naija won't create # about this, the commonsense senator will pretend to be in coma but will suddenly come alive when it's to do with destructive & profitless politicking!!

The worst side of this government is their complete retention of the bad sides of the previous administrations and adding their own bad sides resulting into a double jeopardy for the citizens.

Hardship everywhere, at least GEJ listens and acts to the best interest of the masses but Buhari believes he is God, knowing he is not coming out again in 2019 can do anything and has nothing to lose, I only pity APC that he is damaging their hard earned victory.

Even if they dont do it secretly, the same candidates will still have it.

Better figure out what u can do for yourself and not what govt can do for u

Comedy country

K
The corruption that will engulf this country in this APC reign will be equal to none.
Remember that violation of due process is also corruption.
Time shall tell

| " Targeted Recruitment"
Recruitment targeted at the children and relatives of the big men in Nigeria. You can be sure that some of them did not do NYSC.

The CBN governor's days in office are numbered.

nonstan:
V

V for Van

The qualified ones are left on the street to survive on Nairabet! Shame!