The Lagos State Government has
alerted the general public to an email on a Facebook account fraudulently set up under
the name of “Babatunde Fashola” .
In a statement by Special Adviser on
Media to the Governor, Mr. Hakeem Bello, the email requested unsuspecting
members of the public to pay N2,700 to a Guaranty Trust Bank account as application
form fee for employment.
The statement said the GT Bank
account was opened in the name of one Onyebe Earnest, who according to the
state government, had been sending bulk short messages (SMS) with the name “CSC
Lagos” to advise the public on the GTB account number into which the money
should be paid.
It dissociated the state government
from the message, warning the general public to regard such SMS as “false and
misleading”.
It further clarified that employment
processes in the Civil Service Commission would not require the payment of any
fee, stressing that the government had the responsibility to protect the
interest of the citizens.
“The
government will take every legitimate action to ensure that those behind the
scam are apprehended and brought to book,” the statement said
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