The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has allegedly recruited 100 personnel without proper training and documentation.

Punch reports that the recruits are relatives and wards of influential people, politicians and traditional rulers in the Northern part of Nigeria.

A source told the newspaper that the personnel were employed through the influence of the Commandant-General of the corps, Muhammadu Gana.

A source said, “Just like the illegal recruitment that took place at the Central Bank of Nigeria, the Federal Inland Revenue Service, the Federal Fire Service and other federal agencies, the NSCDC has taken a cue from them by engaging close to 100 recruits who are the wards of politicians and northern traditional rulers.

“The recruits did not even go for the usual paramilitary training. They were simply issued letters and asked to resume.”

NSCDC Public Relations Officer, Emmanuel Okeh however denied the recruitment, stating that the corps does not have provisions to pay new personnel.

Okeh said, “It is not true, we did not recruit new personnel. How can we recruit when we do not have provision for their salaries in the budget? Agencies like the CBN and FIRS, which carried out recruitment like you said, are revenue-generating agencies; we are not like them, we don’t generate revenues.”

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