SaharaReporters has obtained a list of at least 91 people tied to influential or highly placed Nigerians who were recently offered juicy appointments by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in a hiring process that was highly secretive.
The list of beneficiaries of the CBN’s job largesse include a daughter of former Vice President Abubakar Atiku, a son of Mamman Daura, a nephew of President Muhammadu Buhari and one of the closest members of the president’s inner circle, a son of the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, a daughter of former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ghali Na’aba, also daughter of of the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, a since of the Minister of Internal Affairs, Abdurahman Danbazzau and at least 86 others.
The highly controversial recruitment, seen as peddling of influence, first came to light a few weeks ago, but SaharaReporters just exclusively obtained the names of the beneficiaries.
The leaking of the irregular hires by the CBN caused significant embarrassment for the government and the bank. The CBN’s Director of Human Resources, Chizoba Mojekwu, was reportedly redeployed as the bank’s Director of Capacity Development and IT after CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, accused her of being behind the leaking of the list.
However, a top official of the CBN told our correspondent that Mr. Emefiele had arranged the hiring of relatives of top party leaders and powerful government officials as a strategy for saving his job.
Even though the list obtained by SaharaReporters has 91 names, our sources at the CBN disclosed that the CBN Governor had started the practice of using job offers to woo top government officials since Mr. Buhari came into power on May 29, 2015. One source revealed that, in September 2015, Mr. Emefiele had hired Claire Arase, a daughter of Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase.
SaharaReporters learnt that the CBN often went to great lengths, including tweaking the names of recruits, in order to hide the identities of beneficiaries of politically motivated recruitment. Often the CBN used the beneficiaries’ first names and their father’s middle names to hide their real identities. For instance, the bank listed Maryam Atiku as “Maryam Abubakar.” In another case, the bank entered the name of the son of Nigeria’s Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau, as “Nagode Abdulrahman.” In other instances, the bank used the maiden names of hired persons instead of their married names.
The recruitments are deemed irregular because the CBN failed to advertise the vacancies in order to allow opportunities to all qualified Nigerians to apply for the jobs.
In addition, the bank’s “political” recruitments did not follow principles of federal character set out for employment by government agencies and other public institutions. “Jobs were just handed to the children of ministers in the current administration,” one bank official stated. The source added that many of the new hires were asked to pick their department of choice after their irregular employment was concluded.
Below is the full list of 91 people illegally hired by the CBN:
1. BIOLA OLOGBURO ADENIRAN
2. ABBA MUSTAPHA SHETTIMA
3. ABDUL-HAKEEM MOHAMMED ALI
4. ABDULLAHI MOHAMMED NURADEEN
5. ABDULMALIK ATTA
6. ABDULNASIR HARUNA
7. ABUBAKAR MOHAMMED YAHAYA
8. ADEFELA H. ADEJUWON
9. ADUWAK LARABA
10. AHMAD AMINU
11. AHMED AMINU-KANO
12. AHMED ZAINAB SHEHU
13. AINA MICHAEL O
14. AKINWUNMI AYODEJI AKINTOLA
15. ALEXANDAR CHUKWUKA OKAKWU
16. ALIYU AISHA YAKUBU
17. AMINU AHMADU DAUDA
18. AMINU HALIMAT SADIA ABDULLAHI
19. ASUZU OBIOMA C
20. AYOOLA B OYEBANJO
21. AYOOLA OLUWABUKOLA
22. BABAYO ABDULHAKEEM ABDULLAHI
23. CARPENTER BARKA MUHAMMAD
24. DAHIRU ISA ABBA
25. EJIKE EMMANUEL IBE
26. EKAYI NYOFO SHITTA
27. ESSIEN INNOCENT JOSHUA
28. ETHEL ISIOMA OJIJE
29. FARIDA ZUHAIR
30. FATIMA BABA SHEHU
31. FATIMA IMAM
32. HAJARA SANI
33. HANAFI ABUBAKAR MUJELI
34. HASSAN USMAN
35. IBEH NNADOZIE NATHANIEL
36. IBIRONKE IFEOLUWA ADETUNBI
37. IBRAHIM AHMED LAWAN
38. IBRAHIM KABIR TIJJANI
39. IBRAHIM MUHAMMED KABIR
40. IBRAHIM USMAN
41. IDIGO IFEANYI CHARLES
42. IHEOMAMERE CHIKEZIE CHIKWENDU
43. IKYEMBE TERSEEL IKYEMBE
44. JAMES ELIZABETH EDIDIONG
45. JIBRIL ABDULLAHI IBRAHIM
46. JOEL UGOCHUKWU JONES
47. JOHN IRIMIYA BALEWA
48. KAMALUDDEN TUKUR TAFIDA
49. LORETTA LAOYE
50. MARYAM ABUBAKAR
51. MARYAM ADAMU BADAMASI
52. MBWIDUFFU IBRAHIM AUTA
53. MOHAMMAD AHMAD ADAMU
54. MOHAMMED ALI
55. MOHAMMED AMEER IBRAHIM BUNU
56. MUHAMMAD ISAH RUMU
57. MUHAMMAD MUHAMMAD MAGASA
58. MUHAMMED HASSAN
59. MUSA IBRAHIM
60. MUSTAPHA MARIAM BUKOLA
61. NA’ABBA FATIMA GHALI
62. NAGODE ABDULRAHMAN
63. NASREEN MAMMAN-DAURA
64. ODELOLA OYEKUNLE ISIMENME
65. OKOCHA UZOMA MESHARK
66. OLAJIDE TOLANI KUDIRAT
67. OLAWUNMI ADEDOYIN KAYODE
68. OMITOKUN OMOLOLA TEMITOPE
69. OMOILE KINGSLEY UCHEKA
70. ONOJA UWANE JESSICA
71. ORUCHE CHUKWUDUBEM GODWIN
72. OWOADE ADEDAMOLA KAZEEM
73. PRINCEWILL EVA
74. RABIU MUSA MBULO
75. SADIK UBA SULE
76. SADIQ INUWA BABA
77. SALAMI BASHIRAT OMOLOLA
78. SAMAILA SHEHU
79. SHIMA KUMA
80. SOLOMON EZRA MONDE
81. SUNDAY JOHN MOMOH
82. TASLIM GANIYU OLALEKAN
83. TEMITOPE ADEOLA ODUNOWO
84. TITILAYO TOLA OLOWONIYI
85. UKUTE PATRICK EWERE
86. USMAN BUBA JALO
87. YAHAYA SANI
88. YAKUB UMAR YAKUB
89. YAMANI SANUSI
90. YINUSA BILIKIS OREKULEYIN
91. YISA DANIEL NMA
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