The Central Bank of Nigeria
The Transition Monitoring Group (TMG) has described
the recent illegal recruitment by the Central Bank Of
Nigeria as a grand betrayal of the Change mantra.
In a statement to Thenigerialawyer yesterday signed by
the chairman, Comrade Ibrahim M. Zikirullahi, “the
coalition of over 400 civil society organizations, is
dismayed by the recent revelations of outright cronyism
and favouritism in a shady recruitment exercise
conducted by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
“It is indeed very strange that impunity of this
magnitude would be associated with the nation’s apex
bank at a time Nigerians are hoping that the change
mantra of the administration of President Muhammadu
Buhari, would translate into better ethical standards for
conducting government business”.
The coalition said it is not unmindful of the fact that this
scandal is a clear manifestation that there remains
within the system vestiges of the discredited and corrupt
old guard, which would always be against a people
centred philosophy of governance. “For us, the
recruitment scandal points to a culture of lax corporate
governance, which has seen the CBN under the
leadership of Godwin Emefiele canonize itself as a do-
nothing institution in the face of criminal assaults on due
process.
“The CBN which has elected to sacrifice openness, merit
and fairness in its recruitment is the same institution,
which silently conspired with looters and plunderers of
the nation’s financial resources, during the locust years
of the last administration”
“TMG is amazed that the current government has not
deemed it a matter of utmost urgency to halt the
desecration of an institution as vital as the CBN. On the
basis of the litany of sleazes that were made possible by
the acquiescence of the current CBN leadership alone, it
is crystal clear that a clean sweep of leadership at the
apex bank, is long overdue,” it stated.
The Chairman said “TMG is unimpressed by the lame
excuse the CBN spin doctors are adducing for deciding
to embark on a secret recruitment drive. Even if
‘targeted’ employment or head hunting was the basis for
making the process secret, there are thousands of young
Nigerians who need jobs, who could have been
targeted”.
It alleged that “ But because the CBN was working
towards a pre-determined outcome, it filled the list with
names of children and relatives of prominent politicians,
government officials and other influence peddlers. We
insist this is not the proper way to do things; the
outcome of the recruitment must therefore be
immediately jettisoned.”
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