Letters from beyond: Dead civil servant ‘signed’ employment letters in elaborate job scam (DETAILS)

by Rachel Ogbu

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Dead civil servants sign employment letters it has been revealed after evidence showed that one Ahmed Dantanko, who allegedly signed the employment letter issued to Rose Odey and Idachaba Tijani was dead.

Speaking before the joint Senate Committee on Federal Character and Inter-Governmental Affairs and Employment, Labour and Productivity which is investigating the job for sale allegation, Chairman, Federal Civil Service Commission, FCSC, Joan Ayo told the Committee that It would be recalled that Odey and Tijani blew the whistle on the alleged N250, 000 paid for fake jobs in federal ministries.

Ayo also said that Dantanko had even left the services of the Commission in 2008 before his death and was never a Director, just as he was said to be a pool officer.

According to reports, she said that Odey and Tijani had exposed the two known job-for-sale racketeers, Juliet Egobunor and Simon Odujebe, who were on the run adding that Egobunor never returned to work at the Ministry of Lands and Housing and Odujebe had “jumped bail,”

“There’s no record of the employment of Odey and Tijani anywhere in the FCSC. This has nothing to do with us. If we have apprehended Simon and Juliet, we would have got to the end of this case.

“They are on the run. We have told their ministry that they must produce them. If they can’t, they must produce their next-of-kin because that record must be in their files.

“We wanted to bring him before the committee but, unfortunately, he died in an accident last year. He was a civil servant and not a Director. He signed for the then chairman. He was posted out of the Commission as a pool officer,” Ayo said.

The Vanguard reports:

When asked by a member of the committee if she could  prove that the said Dantanko was, indeed dead, she said, ‘’I asked for the record and that was where we got to know that in addition to leaving the Commission, he was also dead.”

Chairman of the joint committee, Senator Dahiru Awaisu Kuta asked Tijani how he was absorbed into the federal ministry where he worked and he replied that, “a file was just opened for me at the ministry and that was it.”

Ayo who faulted the process, however said it contravenes laid-down civil service procedure of employment, adding, “If the employment was genuine, he would have gone to the Office of the Head of Service; that is where posting is issued. Nobody gets a letter a d goes straight to the ministry. As a pool officer, that is not done.

“It means that somebody’s employment letter has been photocopied and it being used over and over again.”

 

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