- Employed Staffs For Fm Stations With Forged Certificates
Director General of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), Barrister Yusuf Nuhu has employed staffs with forged credentials during the recent exercise in December 2012, according to an insider.
“Certificate forgery has gained ground into the FRCN because some of the staffs employed recently in the last at Kano state of the Pyramid Radio Fm and Companion Fm in Katsina”.
According to an official of the FRCN station in Kaduna revealed that “Staffs posted to this station that are directly posted to Kano and Katsina Fm station carried a fake certificate, because some were with certificate of University or I can say institution that nobody recognised it for employment”.
The official who spokes under anonymity explained that “we have similar case in Kano station because one of the new employed staffs going by our investigation had not even attended any university, but submitted a certificate from an Institution that he obtained high qualification, but we observed that the certificate was supplied to her at Sabon Gari in Kano by a consultants who specialised in that fake certificate deal”.
“ of recent an officer at Kano FM station, we have a case of somebody who was the marketing officer but the certificate he worked with were fake after through check at Bayero University Kano where he claimed to have graduated”.
According to him, “There is serious need of Federal government intervention into the station because the management are employing peoples anyhow without going to the institutions to verify the genuine of their certificate”.
The insider source added that “Many staffs with fake certificate was employed on grade level 08 but we all knew the credentials are completely forgery, and we are hoping that investigation into this issue will be commence so as take the employed staffs with fake certificate“.
He appealed to the President Goodluck Jonathan to immediately wade into this issue so as to fish out fake and forgery staffs in the state so as to have genuine staffs in the federal Radio Corporation.
All efforts to contact the Director General Barrister Yusuf Nuhu proved abortive, but when contacted the Kaduna Zonal Office for their respond, none is willing to talk but source revealed that “The issue of certificate forgery is seriously worrying the genuine staffs”.
