Some highly placed federal civil servants including grade level 17 officers have been sacked for conducting illegal recruitment into the Civil Service.
The affected civil servants were said to have extorted about N160m from desperate job seekers before fixing them in a parastatal under the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture during the Jonathan administration.
Information and Culture Minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed told a gathering of On-air personalities on Saturday that the dismissed officials collected N400, 000 each from 400 people and thereafter, included their names in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel System, IPPIS.
“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 was how we got to know that there was a dedicated account these people paid into. Of course, we dismissed these officials and we even handed them over to the Police,“ he said.
The minister said that the Buhari administration is working on the IPPIS to protect it from abuse by unscrupulous civil servants.
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