SEC Secretly Employs Northerners During Public Holidays
A report by The Authority indicates that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has secretly employed 20 members of staff.
According to the report, most of the new workers are from Kano state and a few states in the North, and they were asked to report to work without any induction or training
The interview of the candidates was reportedly carried out on Friday, December 23, 2016 and they were hurriedly asked to report for work on Wednesday, December 27, 2016.
The report stated that the workers were engaged when activities in SEC were almost shut down for the year.
Critics of the exercise also alleged that the vacancies were not advertised while the management favoured candidates from northern states, especially Kano state, the home-state of SEC’s Director-General, Mounir Gwarzo.
SEC DG and Buhari
Reacting to the report, SEC’s head of corporate communications, Naif Abdulssalam, said the positions were not advertised because they were for junior officers.
He also said it obtained a waiver from the Federal Character Commission for the recruitment of 20 junior staff.
Meanwhile, unnamed sources quoted in the report, stated that the candidates ought to come from the catchment states of Kogi, Nasarawa, Niger and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) but the agency gave preferential treatment to Kano.
A source at the commission said some senior workers were also employed.
The source said: “No training or induction was conducted. The whole thing was shrouded in secrecy and most members of staff in the commission were not even aware of what was going on.”
SEC has been in a running battle with the House of Representatives Committee on Federal Character over a similar employment last year.
