CBN Responds to Alleged Nepotism after Juicy Appointments for Government Officials Children

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has reacted to the outcry by the general public following news of an illegal recruitment exercise allegedly carried out by the apex bank.

Sahara Reporters has put up a publication stating that the apex bank employed the children of political and economic bigwigs such as former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, IGP Solomon Arase and others to some key positions in the bank.

The list of beneficiaries of the CBN’s secret job recruitment includes a daughter of former Vice President Abubakar Atiku, a son of Mamman Daura, a nephew of President Buhari and one of the closest members of the president’s inner circle, a son of the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, a daughter of former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ghali Na’aba, also daughter of of the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, a son of the Minister of Internal Affairs, Abdulrahman Dambazau and at least 86 others.

The CBN in its response to Premium Times via CBN’s acting Director of Corporate Communications, Isaac Okorafor, 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”

“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