How CBN outsteppd approved waiver to employ Buhari, Ministers' relatives

Premium Times has confirmed today that the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, really carried out illegal recruitment of about 396 people more than the approved number by the Federal Character Commission in a cunning and crafty way that family members of Buhari and his ministers were employed. Premium Times gathered that Federal Character Commission actually granted waiver to employ 513 people without placing advertisement as required by law, but CBN on its own increased the number to 909. This crafty employment process has benefited the family members of the senior government officials, serving and past. Mr Okoroafor, had said when the allegation was first reported, that the bank did nothing wrong in the recruitment exercise as it got waiver from the FCC to conduct "targeted recruitment of specialists/ experts without advertising".  The Federal Character Commission Regulation Act ,2008, requires that recruitment into ministries, departments, and agencies must adhere to national character to ensure that qualified candidates from all parts of the country are given equal employment opportunity. However, the CBN recruitment violated those conditions by not following the federal character laws. Some of the beneficiaries of this cunning and crafty recruitment process were President Muhammadu Buhari's nephew, Minister of Internal Affairs, Abdulrahman Danbazzau's son, and Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu's son, Inspector General of Police, Solomon Aranse's son, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar's daughter, and former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ghali Na'aba's daughter.