The National Public Relations Officer of the Nigerian Security and
Civil Defence Corps, Mr. Emmanuel Okeh, has said that the corp has
refunded a total of N90m to jobseekers who were defrauded by
recruitment scammers.
Okeh also said that the leadership of the NSCDC have also arrested
not less 600 persons involved in defrauding unsuspecting jobseekers
with fake recruitment exercises purported for the various services in
the country from 2008.
He urged Nigerians to note that recruitment into the NSCDC would not
involve payment of money, purchase of forms by applicants or direction
of applications to any website to make payments.
He stressed that the Corp would advertise in some media houses at the
appropriate time whenever the time came for recruitment.
The Civil Defence Spokesman who is also the Secretary of the
Spokespersons of Security and Response Agencies, made the comment
while speaking on the activities of the corp in a media interactive
forum organised by the Coordinator of I-Nigerian, Mr. Ada Apiafi in
Abuja on Wednesday.
He said, "The issue of employment racketeering has been a thing of
worry to the Corp because everyday we keep hearing about people
calling; myself at least, before coming here this morning at least I
have received about 15 calls from people: 'I learnt they say they are
recruiting, I learnt your form is on line, Sir when can I bring my
cv?'
"Even some of our colleagues come to find out that they call them
that they should bring their candidates and they should come and pay
money into a specific account.
"Now from 2008, when the issue of racketeering started, not just in
the service alone, the ones in the name of immigration, Customs,
Police and other agencies, including private organisation that we
investigated, we have had not less than 6,000 persons that we have
arrested and so far we have refunded money from those who are involved
to the tune of N90 million which we have given to Nigerians that were
defrauded.
"Now our cry all the time and what we keep telling and informing
Nigerians is that recruitment into services in Nigeria is not by
payment of money by anybody. Each service has its own mode of
recruitment.
"The NSCDC has never been involved in any online recruitment, and we
have no intention of asking anybody to pay money. We don't sell forms
and we don't open website for people to go and pay online. When it is
the appropriate time for recruitment, the various media houses that
are to be used to inform them would carry out the recruitment
process," he said.
He recalled the arrest of one Michael in Abuja who ran a syndicate
that specialises in defrauding unsuspecting job seekers and traced the
sum of N495m and another $950,000 to his account.
He said that the suspect was being investigated for other offences
especially money laundering in view of the funds traced into his
Dollar account.
Okeh said that the fraudster who was said to have opened 50 accounts
in different names had been handed over to the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission for further investigation and prosecution.
The NSCDC Spokesman also said that the organisation arrested a total
of 380 oil pipeline and critical infrastructure vandals from January
to July 2014.
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