REVEALED: Edo State Workers Used Kids' Certificates for Employment, Promotion

Many Edo State workers who used their children’s or brother’s certificates to secure employment or promotion have been busted.

They were among the 1,800 workers issued letters to explain discrepancies in their credentials.

This cheating by workers was uncovered during the verification exercise recently carried out by the state government.

Governor Adams Oshiomhole has commented on the outcome of the verification exercise during a meeting with some civil society groups.

“It is true we have done verification in the health sector, civil service and others, which puts a lie to the claims by teachers that they are being targeted and are the only ones asked to do verification, and we discovered some civil servants who are using their children’s certificates or their brother’s certificate.

“However, we have not sacked anybody. If anything, we have directed the Civil Service

Commission to employ new hands into the Civil Service. In any event, we don’t have a record of taking unilateral decisions on matters affecting the workers,” he said.

Gov. Oshiomhole, who maintained his disposition towards training and retraining of teachers, said the teachers’ competence level must be determined to design an appropriate retraining programme for them.