Concern with recruiting 300 staff from 2015 till date, without advertising by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board JAMB, the House of Representatives has queried the board for its action.
The Chairman of the Adhoc committee of the House of Representatives investigating job racketeering in Federal Ministries, Department and Agencies of government (MDAs), Mr Yussuf Gagdi issued the query when the Registrar of the board Prof Ishaq Oloyede appeared before the committee.
Gagdi noted that ordinary Nigerians have been robbed of the opportunity to get employment due to none advertising the vacancy, explained that recruiting about 300 staff through waiver was against the federal character.
“What makes you think advertising wouldn’t have been better? You have the capacity to screen the people that apply to get better hands to do those jobs. I’m asking this because we are most interested in correcting the fraud associated with waivers,” Gagdi said.
In his defence, JAMB Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, said the board followed the federal character principles in the job recruitment exercise it conducted from 2015 till date.
“Board had gotten waiver from the relevant agencies to employ staff to replace those that had left, and the board had five sets of recruitment in the period under review.
On why JAMB sought for waiver to recruit over 300 people instead of advertising, the Registrar said: “We used the waiver because we believe the exigency of the time and the nature of our work deserves it. If we are to advertise for the three hundred, we wouldn’t be able to meet up with what we needed them for”.
“I believe very strongly that it was very necessary at that time that we recruited and I assure you that we did not surcharge those who are qualified”.
The committee is to continue its investigation with more agencies appearing.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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