MINISTER of Interior, Abba Moro, has refuted allegations of job racketeering levelled against him by the Chairman, Federal Character Commission (FCC), Professor Oba AbdulRahman.
AbdulRahman had alleged before the Senator Dahiru A. Kuta-led committee investigating sale of jobs in government establishment that the Ministry of Interior ran an illegal online job scam.
Speaking before the joint committee on Federal Character and Inter-Governmental Affairs and Employment, Labour and Productivity, Moro distanced the ministry from the purported website, adding that investigations on the allegation within the ministry also exonerated members of staff of the ministry.
“That is certainly not true. We don’t have online recruitment arrangement in place in the ministry. We have never, officially, to the best of my knowledge, asked anybody to place applications online. Certain persons went to press and because of the sensitivity of recruitments, certain people went to town that the ministry was engaged in unwholesome activities; it’s not true.
“Let me say, therefore, that in the course of our recruitment, replacement exercises, we have had recurring decimal or incidents of complaints and allegations of some level of scam in the exercise, and I want to say here that this is as a result of the situation in which we found ourselves in this country; number of persons that are unemployed and the number of persons itching for recruitment.
“In the process, it was brought to our notice that certain persons engaged in unwholesome practices of defrauding members of the public of funds, payments for jobs and the rest of that,” Moro said.
He added that the ministry has made strenuous efforts in ensuring that Nigerians were not shortchanged.
“I have said time without number that it is criminal for anybody to take money from unemployed youths to get them employed.
“And so, as I stand before you, to present these documents to you, on my honour, it is not an official policy of the Ministry of Interior to ask for money for employment. We have never engaged in it, and we have asked anybody who has knowledge of anybody who asked for money for employment to report such people.
“I equally want to say that even on a particular case where we had reason to intervene that certain members were defrauding the public, I directed the Intelligence Unit of the Nigeria Civil Defence Corps, intimating them of the activities of one particular person, that he be arrested and possibly prosecuted.”
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