The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences
Commission (ICPC) says the ministry of labour and the University College
Hospital Ibadan are involved in illegal recruitment.
Bolaji Owasanoye, ICPC chairman, said this on Monday while
speaking at the third national summit on diminishing corruption in the public
service.
Owasanoye said an investigation carried out by the ICPC
revealed that several MDAs are involved in illegal recruitment which reflects
in the huge wage bill on personnel and operational costs standing at about 70
percent of the annual budget.
“A major push factor on high cost of governance and rising
personnel budget is illegal recruitment, illegal and unilateral increase in
wages and remuneration by some MDAs, indiscriminate local and international
travels, unreasonable demands by some political appointee board members of MDAs
without regard for extant circulars on cost management; procurement fraud,
budget padding, etc,” the ICPC chairman said.
“ICPC investigation
of some cases of illegal recruitment forwarded to us by the head of the civil
service of the federation has so far implicated ministry of labour and the
University College Hospital Ibadan and a number of corrupt staff of other MDAs
at a lower level. This abuse of power is consummated with complicity of
compromised elements in IPPIS. These cases are currently under investigation.”
Speaking further, Owasanoye added that “at another level, a
syndicate of corrupt individuals within the service corruptly employ unsuspecting
Nigerians, issue them fake letters of employment, fraudulently enrol them on
IPPIS and post them to equally unsuspecting MDAs to commence work”.
“ICPC is prosecuting one of the leaders of the syndicate
from whose custody we retrieved several fake letters of recommendation
purportedly signed by the chief of staff to the president, Honourable
ministers, federal civil service commission and other high ranking Nigerians,”
he said.
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