Nigeria’s Central Bank Illegally Hired, Sons, Daughters And Relatives Of Former VP Atiku, IGP Arase, GMD Of NNPC, Minister Of Internal Affairs, Other Top Officials
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.
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 of the
Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, a since 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 our 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, our sources at the CBN disclosed that the CBN Governor had started the practice of using job offers to woo top government officials since Mr. 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.
Below is the full list of 91 people illegally hired by the
1. BIOLA
OLOGBURO ADENIRAN
2. ABBA
MUSTAPHA SHETTIMA
3.
ABDUL-HAKEEM MOHAMMED ALI
4. ABDULLAHI
MOHAMMED NURADEEN 5. ABDULMALIK ATTA
6.
ABDULNASIR HARUNA 7. ABUBAKAR MOHAMMED YAHAYA
8. ADEFELA
H. ADEJUWON 9. ADUWAK LARABA
10. AHMAD
AMINU 11. AHMED AMINU-KANO
12. AHMED
ZAINAB SHEHU 13. AINA MICHAEL O
14.
AKINWUNMI AYODEJI AKINTOLA 15. ALEXANDAR CHUKWUKA OKAKWU
16. ALIYU
AISHA YAKUBU
17. AMINU
AHMADU DAUDA
18. AMINU
HALIMAT SADIA ABDULLAHI
19. ASUZU
OBIOMA C
20. AYOOLA B
OYEBANJO
21. AYOOLA
OLUWABUKOLA
22. BABAYO
ABDULHAKEEM ABDULLAHI
23. CARPENTER BARKA MUHAMMAD
24. DAHIRU ISA ABBA
25. EJIKE
EMMANUEL IBE
26. EKAYI
NYOFO SHITTA
27. ESSIEN INNOCENT JOSHUA
28. ETHEL
ISIOMA OJIJE
29. FARIDA
ZUHAIR
30. FATIMA BABA SHEHU
31. FATIMA
IMAM
32. HAJARA
SANI
33. HANAFI
ABUBAKAR MUJELI
34. HASSAN
USMAN
35. IBEH
NNADOZIE NATHANIEL
36. IBIRONKE IFEOLUWA ADETUNBI
37. IBRAHIM
AHMED LAWAN
38. IBRAHIM
KABIR TIJJANI
39. IBRAHIM
MUHAMMED KABIR
40. IBRAHIM USMAN
41. IDIGO IFEANYI CHARLES
42.
IHEOMAMERE CHIKEZIE CHIKWENDU
43. IKYEMBE
TERSEEL IKYEMBE
44. JAMES
ELIZABETH EDIDIONG
45. JIBRIL
ABDULLAHI IBRAHIM
46. JOEL UGOCHUKWU JONES
47. JOHN IRIMIYA BALEWA
48.
KAMALUDDEN TUKUR TAFIDA
49. LORETTA LAOYE
50. MARYAM
ABUBAKAR
51. MARYAM
ADAMU BADAMASI
52.
MBWIDUFFU IBRAHIM AUTA
53. MOHAMMAD AHMAD ADAMU
54. MOHAMMED ALI
55. MOHAMMED AMEER IBRAHIM BUNU
56. MUHAMMAD
ISAH RUMU
57. MUHAMMAD
MUHAMMAD MAGASA
58. MUHAMMED
HASSAN
59. MUSA IBRAHIM
60. MUSTAPHA
MARIAM BUKOLA
61. NA'ABBA
FATIMA GHALI
62. NAGODE
ABDULRAHMAN
63. NASREEN
MAMMAN-DAURA
64. ODELOLA OYEKUNLE ISIMENME
65. OKOCHA
UZOMA MESHARK
66. OLAJIDE
TOLANI KUDIRAT
67. OLAWUNMI ADEDOYIN KAYODE
68. OMITOKUN OMOLOLA TEMITOPE
69. OMOILE
KINGSLEY UCHEKA
70. ONOJA
UWANE JESSICA
71. ORUCHE
CHUKWUDUBEM GODWIN
72. OWOADE ADEDAMOLA KAZEEM
73.
PRINCEWILL EVA
74. RABIU
MUSA MBULO
75. SADIK
UBA SULE
76. SADIQ
INUWA BABA
77. SALAMI BASHIRAT OMOLOLA
78. SAMAILA
SHEHU
79. SHIMA
KUMA
80. SOLOMON
EZRA MONDE
81. SUNDAY
JOHN MOMOH
82. TASLIM
GANIYU OLALEKAN
83. TEMITOPE
ADEOLA ODUNOWO
84. TITILAYO
TOLA OLOWONIYI
85. UKUTE PATRICK EWERE
86. USMAN BUBA JALO
87. YAHAYA
SANI
88. YAKUB
UMAR YAKUB
89. YAMANI
SANUSI
90. YINUSA
BILIKIS OREKULEYIN
91. YISA
DANIEL NMA
by SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORK
Mar 15, 2016
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