A pro-anticorruption and good governance group, Network Against Corruption and Trafficking, NACAT has petitioned the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Olayemi Cardoso, the House and Senate Committee Chairmen on Banking and other financial institutions, their counterparts in the Ethics and Privileges and the Civil Service Commission, requesting for an exhaustive review of the employment of the Ag. Executive Director, Corporate Services in the Nigeria, Security, Printing and Minting, Mr. Adesoji Ogungbesan.
In the petitions, exclusively obtained by LeadingReporters, the group appealed to the authorities to investigate an alleged back-door employment of Mr Adesoji Ogungbesan who was allegedly interviewed for the position of a Senior Manager, only to be appointed an Executive Director, against MINT employment and civil service commission laid down rules.
It was alleged that Adesoji Ogungbesan who previously worked with Sahara Group was presented to the board of directors of MINT by one Olakunle Abiola, an aide to the Deputy Governor of Central Mrs Emem Usoro for employment. LeadingReporters leart that Mr. Abiola in his efforts to help his friend, Mr Ogungbesan recommended him to his principal, for employment in MINT as an Assistant General Manager. But upon being interviewed, the panel that interviewed Mr Ogungbesan in their reported posited that he was not qualified for the position of an Assistant General Manager, but rather recommended that he be employed as a Senior Manager in the government-owned MINT.
Surprisingly, instead of heeding to the report and recommendation of the panel, Mr. Ogungbesan was ‘schemed’ into the position of Executive Director by no other than Deputy Governor Emem Usoro.
Speaking with LeadingReporters, the group’s Director Compliance, S. I. E. Oseagah said that his organisation received a verifiable petition that suggested criminal manipulation and glaring employment scam which should not be waved aside.
“Upon receipt of a petition, we verified that there was a clear case of criminal infractions, violation of laid down rules, and employment scam. This are not in tune with the reforms the Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Mr Olayemi Cardoso is spearheading in that agency, hence the need to call his attention and that of other stakeholders to this glaring anomaly.
The group said that it would continue to assist creative reforms of the government and lend a voice for the greater good of the nation.
