The Oyo State Government has on Wednesday, threatened to prosecute people it referred to as “undesirable elements” that engage in recruitment fraud with the express purpose of defrauding the general public.
According to a rumoured list that has been spreading on social media, the State Universal Basic Education Board has already started the hiring process.
In a statement, the board’s chairman, Nureni Adeniran, asked the public to exercise caution and avoid doing business with con artists posing as recruitment representatives for the board.
According to him, management had started looking for people responsible for the fraud and had vowed to turn them in if they were apprehended.
Adeniran said, “On repeated occasions, we have cautioned the general public to be vigilant and circumspect not to deal with scammers who pose as recruitment agents or staff members of OYOSUBEB. They collect huge sums of money from unsuspecting victims with the promise to provide them employment at OYOSUBEB.
“Today, we saw a list of names published by some fraudulent people, claiming those are the people invited for the OYOSUBEB job interview. On the list, their interview was scheduled for Tuesday, April 18 and Wednesday, April 19, 2023 at an unknown venue. We are on it and anyone caught disseminating this kind of information will be dealt with, according to the law.
“When OYOSUBEB plans to expand its workforce and seek to recruit competent hands to carry out the task of improving the state’s education sector, the public can rest assured that we would follow appropriate channels and processes in doing so; including advertisements on public channels of communication, followed by rigorous screening, interviews and examination exercises,” the chairman said.
