47 applicants paid N51.8m for fake LG jobs in C’River – Nsa

No less than 47 applicants were allegedly defrauded of implicit N51.8 cardinal successful the cancelled 2024/2025 section authorities recruitment workout successful Cross River State.

The Chairman of the Cross River State Local Government Service Commission, Barr. Eyo Nsa Ekpo, disclosed this during an aboriginal greeting programme, Let’s Talk Nigeria, connected Sparkling FM.

Ekpo said the victims were allegedly cajoled, frightened and intimidated into parting with amounts ranging from N100,000 to N1.5 cardinal successful speech for section authorities employment.

According to him, immoderate of those who applied for elder positions allegedly paid arsenic overmuch arsenic N1.3 cardinal and N1.5 cardinal to unafraid appointments.

He said the revelation followed investigations by a sheet constituted by the authorities authorities aft complaints and nationalist uproar implicit the recruitment exercise.

“The sheet recovered retired that arsenic galore arsenic 47 victims were cajoled, frightened and intimidated to portion with implicit N51.8 cardinal for fake section authorities jobs,” Ekpo said.

He disclosed that the perpetrators allegedly went further to contented fake employment letters to applicants, thereby giving them the content that they had secured authorities jobs.

The committee president said immoderate of the alleged perpetrators also...