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The absorption of the Federal Fire Service (FFS) has issued a stern informing to hopeless occupation seekers, urging them to steer wide of employment fraud and cease dragging the organisation’s sanction successful the mud.
The Service lamented the harm employment fraud has inflicted connected its credibility, arsenic good arsenic the affectional and fiscal toll connected victims.
Controller General (CG) of the FFS, Engr Abdulganiyu O. Jaji, successful a connection connected Monday, expressed heavy interest implicit the rising cases of occupation racketeering involving unscrupulous agents who deceive hopeless occupation seekers with fake assignment letters.
The CG emphasised that the bureau volition ne'er authorise immoderate 3rd parties to behaviour recruitment connected its behalf and reiterated that each authoritative processes are handled transparently done recognised authorities platforms.
Jaji vowed that anyone caught presenting forged documents successful a bid to unafraid employment volition look contiguous apprehension and prosecution.
“Let maine daze you, the Federal Fire Service, done its vigilant oversight, uncovered 5 names of hopeless occupation seekers who managed to insert themselves into the IPPIS database without having immoderate archetypal invitation oregon assignment letters.
“On behalf of the Board, I situation anyone successful possession of a genuine assignment missive who claims to person been unjustly denied the accidental to travel guardant with it.
“The information is, we were highly thorough with the full recruitment process. In fact, we went arsenic acold arsenic inviting those individuals who illicitly made it onto the IPPIS platform, and they openly confessed to engaging successful underground dealings. Every imaginable loophole was sealed—we meticulously cross-checked the archetypal maestro database against some the last documented database and the IPPIS entries.
“Interestingly, erstwhile we uncovered and seized respective of these fake letters, we made the strategical determination to softly suspend the documentation process without immoderate nationalist announcement. To our surprise, the fraudsters — wholly unaware of our determination — went up and printed adjacent much fake letters. We could lone ticker and laugh, knowing they had already exposed themselves,” Jaji said.
While reaffirming the Service’s committedness to integrity, Jaji called connected the nationalist to stay vigilant and study suspicious activities. He further assured that genuine opportunities wrong the bureau volition ever beryllium publically announced done proper, verifiable channels
Jaji added successful the statement, “Each clip we are made alert of the alarming emergence successful fake recruitment activities being carried retired by fraudsters, we instrumentality it upon ourselves to promptly alert Nigerians— peculiarly hopeless occupation seekers — that these fraudulent recruitment claims into the Service are not from us. We powerfully pass the nationalist to beryllium cautious and debar engaging with these scammers who falsely contiguous themselves arsenic representatives of the Federal Fire Service.
“Referring to the precocious concluded recruitment exercise, it’s worthy recalling that the contiguous past Secretary of the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB), Ja’afaru Ahmed, issued an authoritative connection urging candidates to cheque their presumption connected the Board’s portal, cdcfib.career, connected the designated day successful December 2024. The Board had specifically advised applicants for the Federal Fire Service (FFS) recruitment to sojourn the portal to corroborate their last enactment and download their invitation letters directly.
“Having made this clear, anyone claiming to person been invited for documentation but whose sanction does not look connected the authoritative maestro database has, without a doubt, fallen unfortunate to scammers.
“It is disheartening that, contempt repeated warnings, immoderate occupation seekers proceed to willingly autumn into the hands of fraudsters who spell arsenic acold arsenic creating fake websites, selling bogus recruitment forms, and extorting ample sums of wealth nether the guise of processing employment.
“We person consistently emphasized—through the CDCFIB—that the full recruitment process into the 4 paramilitary agencies nether the Ministry of Interior is wholly free, with nary payments required astatine immoderate stage.”
“As a substance of fact, respective fake invitation letters, SMS messages, and emails were intercepted. Shockingly, adjacent aft the caller Secretary of the Board assumed office, immoderate individuals inactive showed up with forged letters falsely bearing the sanction of the erstwhile Secretary.
“It is genuinely disheartening that occupation seekers who willingly prosecute with individuals who call, nonstop suspicious links via substance messages, and adjacent petition payments done provided relationship details, aboriginal crook astir to petition the Service erstwhile things spell wrong.
“The Federal Fire Service, nether my watch, is built connected a instauration of hard-earned integrity, and we volition bash everything indispensable to safeguard that reputation. On this note, I entreaty to those with genuine complaints to enactment our efforts by submitting the relationship details, names, and telephone numbers of those progressive for contiguous and decisive action.
“No credible authorities bureau would contented letters of invitation to palmy candidates lone to crook astir and cancel them. That is wholly unrealistic—and fto maine beryllium clear—the Federal Fire Service has ne'er been, and volition ne'er be, progressive successful specified misconduct.
“We person present resolved to statesman arresting and publically parading individuals who contiguous fake invitation letters during documentation and screening exercises. Alarmingly, immoderate adjacent spell arsenic acold arsenic submitting forged assignment letters.
“I privation to usage this accidental to entreaty to occupation seekers, particularly our hardworking youths, to stay patient. The authorities is actively moving to make meaningful opportunities to prosecute them.
“The Honourable Minister of Interior, himself a young man, is committed to ensuring that the years our youths person invested successful acquisition bash not spell to waste. Instead of turning to fake websites—often with suspicious telephone numbers and email contacts—applicants should hold for authoritative advertisements from the CDCFIB successful nationalist newspapers and use lone done the government-designated portal, wherever nary outgo is required astatine immoderate stage.
“Finally, fto maine categorically authorities that nary Federal Fire Service unit should beryllium patronised nether immoderate circumstance. Any campaigner who chooses to bash truthful volition carnivore the consequences alone.”
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