The Central Bank of Nigeria has explained why it recruited without advertising.
The bank said it opted for a secret process of hiring new staff in the past two years because the bank was doing “targeted recruitment”
A recruitment scandal exposed by two newspapers is currently rocking the apex bank.
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, however expl;ained that the bank did nothing wrong in hiring without advertising and that it got waiver from the Federal Character Commission to do so.
“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.
On the issue of states not well represented (in the CBN), Mr. Okorafor said, “In this case we focus on those states to recruits people of certain classes that we used to cover the shortfall in those states.”
He however declined to confirm or deny the names on the list.
Meanwhile, news reaching the Port Harcourt Spectator says the national assembly has ordered an investigation into the alleged employment scandal.
