Federal Government Agencies Sell Jobs for N500,000 each

The Senate yesterday resolved to investigate all the recruitment exercises

conducted by all the Federal Government agencies in the last two years, with a

vow to punish perpetrators of employment scams in the country.

The decision followed allegations of widespread recruitment irregularities that

include selling of job slots to job applicants for as much as N500,000 per slot.


Two of the senators gave personal testimonies on alleged cases of selling jobs,

with one of them confessing that he offered money for a job slot to help a

well-qualified job applicant from his constituency. Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume

(PDP, Borno) told the Senate that, out of compassion, he once paid a sum of

N200,000 for a job offer in a government agency for one of his constituents, a

second class upper graduate of Geography. Senate Leader Victor Ndoma-Egba also

disclosed that many of his constituents had approached him to no avail for

N500,000 per job offer in government agencies.


Touched by these and other testimonies, the senators resolved to launch a

through investigation into all recruitments done by all the ministries,


departments and agencies (MDAs) of the Federal Government in the last two years.



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