Revealed - List of Sons, Daughters, Relatives of Buhari, Atiku, IGP & More Illegally Hired by CBN

Central Bank of Nigeria - A list
of at least 91 people tied to
influential or highly placed
Nigerians who were recently
offered juicy appointments by
the Central Bank of Nigeria
(CBN)in a hiring process that
was highly secretive has been
revealed. SaharaReporters has
obtained a list of at least 91
people tied to influential or
highly placed Nigerians who
were recently offered juicy
appointments by the Central
Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in a
hiring process that was highly
secretive.

The list of beneficiaries of the
CBN’s job largesse include a
daughter of former Vice
President, Abubakar Atiku, a
son of Mamman Daura, a
nephew of President
Muhammadu 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
the Inspector General of
Police, Solomon Arase, a son
of the Minister of Internal
Affairs, Abdurahman
Danbazzau and at least 86
others.

The highly controversial
recruitment, seen as peddling
of influence, first came to light
a few weeks ago, but
SaharaReporters just
exclusively obtained the
names of the beneficiaries.
The leaking of the irregular
hires by the CBN caused
significant embarrassment for
the government and the bank.
The CBN’s Director of Human
Resources, Chizoba Mojekwu,
was reportedly redeployed as
the bank’s Director of Capacity
Development and IT after CBN
Governor, Godwin Emefiele,
accused her of being behind
the leaking of the list.

However, a top official of the
CBN told a correspondent that
Mr. Emefiele had arranged the
hiring of relatives of top party
leaders and powerful
government officials as a
strategy for saving his job.
Even though the list obtained
by SaharaReporters has 91
names, sources at the CBN
disclosed that the CBN
Governor had started the
practice of using job offers to
woo top government officials
since Buhari came into power
on May 29, 2015. One source
revealed that, in September
2015, Mr. Emefiele had hired
Claire Arase, a daughter of
Nigeria’s Inspector General of
Police, Solomon Arase.

SaharaReporters learnt that
the CBN often went to great
lengths, including tweaking the
names of recruits, in order to
hide the identities of
beneficiaries of politically
motivated recruitment. Often
the CBN used the
beneficiaries’ first names and
their father’s middle names to
hide their real identities.
For instance, the bank listed
Maryam Atiku as 'Maryam
Abubakar.' In another case, the
bank entered the name of the
son of Nigeria’s Minister of
Interior, Abdulrahman
Dambazau, as 'Nagode
Abdulrahman.' In other
instances, the bank used the
maiden names of hired
persons instead of their
married names
The recruitments are deemed
irregular because the CBN
failed to advertise the
vacancies in order to allow
opportunities to all qualified
Nigerians to apply for the jobs.
In addition, the bank’s
'political' recruitments did not
follow principles of federal
character set out for
employment by government
agencies and other public
institutions.
Jobs were just handed to the
children of ministers in the
current administration,' one
bank official stated. The
source added that many of the
new hires were asked to pick
their department of choice
after their irregular
employment was concluded.

Source: Tori.ng