The Central Bank of Nigeria has reacted to the public outcry of an
illegal recruitment exercise allegedly carried out by the apex bank.
Jobzilla published the list from Sahara Reporters who
reported that the bank employed
the children of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, IGP Solomon Arase
and others to some key positions in the bank. If you missed the list, see it here.
This report has sparked up public outcry as many believe that the bank
should have publicized the job openings for many other people to
apply.
However in an interview with Premium Times yesterday March 16th, the
CBN’s acting Director of Corporate Communications, Isaac Okorafor said
the bank did nothing illegal or wrong in hiring without advertising.
“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" He 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 recruits people of certain classes that we used to cover the shortfall in those states,” he said
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