Niger Govt employed over 1, 600 civil servants, dismissed 328 for certificate forgery in Five years

Niger State government has said it has employed no fewer than about 1, 133 civil servants including 515 health personnel in the past five years.

The Chairman of the State Civil Service Commission, Alhaji Shehu Yusuf Galadima stated this in a press briefing, on Tuesday, in Minna, adding, that the health sector got the highest number of employees with 31medical doctors, 115 House officers, 95 intern pharmacists and 262 other health workers.

He said, “we also recruited 218 personnel for the educational sector to alleviate the shortage of teachers in various subjects adding that 150 of them were deployed to Secondary Education Board, Science and Technical Schools Board while 68 others were deployed to Teachers Professional Development Institute towards ensuring the successful take-off of the institute.”

He stressed that 328 personnel were however dismissed from service for various offences including certificate racketeering.

Galadima, said, “on certificate racketeering, no fewer than 328 personnel were dismissed from service after the commission undertook a forensic examination of all certificates pledged during their interview for their respective jobs, while the institutions they purported to have attended declared their claims as forgery.”

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