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Some top officials of the Civil Service have been
dismissed by the Federal Government for extorting money from 400 applicants and
offering them employment illegally, the federal govenment has claimed.
The
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made this disclosure
on Saturday in Lagos during a meeting with some selected On-Air-Personalities.
The News
Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mohammed said that the affected officers
were on Grade Level 17 in one of the parastatals in the ministry of Information
and Culture.
He said
that the officers had included the names of the applicants in the Integrated
Payroll and Personnel System (IPPIS) before the fraud was discovered.
"The
first scandal I met in one of the parastatals when I assumed office was the
illegal employment of 400 people.
"This
scandal started with very senior officers up to level 17 in that department.
"They
sent out letters and text messages asking people to apply for jobs for a fee of
N400, 000 and they were given letters of employment.
"They
did not stop there. They invited these people to go and be captured on the
IPPIS and they even took cameras to hotels to get them captured. At the end of
the day the bubble burst.
"One
of the victims told these officials, 'you cannot take my money and still
disengage me. I have a valid letter.'’’
"That
is how we got to know that there is a dedicated account these people pay to. Of
course, we dismissed these officials and we even handed them over to the
Police," the minster said.
Mohammed
said that the incident showed how faulty the IPPIS was and how it had been
compromised by unscrupulous elements.
He said
that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari was doing all it could to
make the IPPIS tamper-proof and guide it from people who might want to load
ghost workers on it.
The
minister said the current war against corruption was a war of survival for the
nation and urged all Nigerians to give it the necessary support.
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