By Sampson Boroh
The Ijaw Youths Council (IYC), has raised the alarm over alleged hijack and illegal sales of employment slots meant for indigenes of Bayelsa State, in the ongoing recruitment into federal ministries and parastatals.
The umbrella body of Ijaw Youths Worldwide, alleged that employment slots meant for Bayelsa indigenes at the Federal Ministry of Interior including the Civil Defence Corps, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services, appear to have been sold to strange and unknown names as beneficiaries.
National Spokesman of the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) worldwide, Comrade Ebilade Ekerefe, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday.
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Ekerefe urged the Federal Government to halt the ongoing processes of recruitment, describing it as faulty and suspicious.
According to him, IYC’s independent investigation showed that in the list released from the Federal Ministry of Interior was either hijacked by employment racketeers or sold out by those involved in the recruitment processes to Northern and South-Eastern indigenes.
Comrade Ekerefe therefore called on the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbeshola, to order a halt to the recruitment processes into the identified departments and review the list of beneficiaries from Bayelsa and other states of the Niger Delta region.
This is even as he charged the Minister of Interior to liaise with the State Government through the Ministry of Labour and Productivity, to source for names of genuine and qualified Bayelsa indigenes, to avoid pitfalls of employment racketeering and fraud.
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Ekerefe charged members of the National Assembly representing various constituencies of the state to treat the development as an issue of urgent national importance.
He urged then to counter the list and names attributed as beneficiaries of the ongoing employment opportunities by the Federal Government, describing the recruitment exercise as scam and hijack of Bayelsa indigene slots.
