News: Job Recruitment Racket Rocks NSCDC

Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) - Indication emerged in Abuja that the national headquarters of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) is currently enmeshed in alleged secret recruitment of personnel under the guise of replacement.

One of the aggrieved top official of the Corps, who confided in the Nigerian Tribune, said in defiance to the approval by the Presidency for recruitment of certain number of persons into the Corps, there had been a clandestine replacement of some officers.

Nigerian Tribune gathered that some fake staffers had been discovered in the ongoing data capture of NSCDC personnel, which commenced since last week at different centres across the federation.

Although, the number of such fake officers could not be ascertained as at the time of writing this report, it was gathered that the affected officers were victims of recruitment scam that had enveloped the agency a few years ago.

Also, affected were some of the officers who were engaged in 2012 and as well got special promotion during the period without due process.

Reacting to the development, the Commandant General NSCDC, Muhammadu Gana, debunked claims in some section of the media suggestive of recruitment scandal in the Corps.

Gana said the management of NSCDC was worried by rumours peddled in some quarters that he was fighting with some management staff of the Corps over sharing of recruitment slots.

Its Public Relations Officer, Mr Emmanuel Okeh, reacting to the allegations in a statement in Abuja, said the Commandant General, who was surprised at this negative development, said “no rift exists within the Corps.”

According to him, "we are all working together one family, irrespective religion and tribe. We are one big happy family."

He, however, said it was true that the Corps needed more personnel in order to meet up with the present demand, especially in the execution of the constitutional mandate and to that effect, request for recruitment of more personnel was in process.

"However, this request has been misconstrued by several persons and without waiting for it to come to fruition, chose the path of slander. Wrong signal was sent all along, making people to believe that recruitment or whatever they term replacement is going on in the organisation," he said.

He reiterated that having made this information known to the populace, any unsuspecting applicant who fell prey having failed to heed the warning should not blame the NSCDC.

Source: Nigerian Tribune