‘They are people of certain classes’ | CBN defends appointment of Buhari’s nephew, 90 others

The Acting Director of Corporate Communications of the Central Bank of Nigeria,  Isaac Okorafor has tried to explain the alleged nepotism of the apex bank which is reflected in the secret recruitment of the wards of some national leaders.

News outlet, Sahara Reporters had uncovered the secret recruitment of some relatives of President Muhammadu Buhari, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, among others.

The beneficiaries of the secret recruitment include a daughter of former Vice President Abubakar Atiku, a son of Mamman Daura, a nephew of President Buhari and one of the closest members of the president’s inner circle, a son of the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, a daughter of former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ghali Na’aba, also daughter of of the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, a son of the Minister of Internal Affairs, Abdurahman Danbazzau and at least 86 others.

The CBN has now defended the employment of the children of the ‘elites’, describing it as nothing illegal.

Okorafor, on Wednesday, said there was nothing wrong in recruiting without advertising.

But of course, the question the whole nation is asking is not the legality of the recruitment but the qualifications of the recruited ‘elites’.

He said: “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.”

The CBN did their targeted recruitment quite alright, only that in place of targeting the actual ‘specialists’ they went for children of the high and mighty instead.

And Nigerians keep wondering why the naira continues to plummet against the dollar in the international market and no one at the apex bank has come up with a long lasting solution yet.

Also, a large percentage of the beneficiaries of the recruitment happened to be from the Northern side of Nigeria which is against the Federal Character Commission, another gaffe by the CBN which has continued to fuel the dangerous fire of ethnicity and favoritism.

Okorafor said the bank obtained waiver from the Federal Character Commission.

“The other issue is that there are states that are not well represented (in the CBN), and in this case we focus on those states to recruit people of certain classes that we used to cover the shortfall in those states,” he said.

In essence, only the children of the people in ‘certain classes’ are qualified to fill the vacant slots in the CBN.

What then is the hope for the people who are not in these ‘certain classes’ or from the so called ‘not well represented states’?

Are they not Nigerians too?

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