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The Independent National Electoral Commission on Saturday again raised the alarm over the activities of scammers and those it had previously referred to as “fake employment merchants and racketeers.”
The commission said the merchants, purporting to be acting on its behalf, “open fake employment websites and issue fake employment letters.”
INEC National Commissioner and Chairman (Information and Voter Education Committee), Festus Okoye, raised the alarm in a statement titled, ‘Circulation of fake INEC recruitment advert on social media.’
He said, “These scammers are once again circulating the commission’s old recruitment advertisement on social media with the obvious intention to lure and dupe unsuspecting members of the public with attractive offers of employment.
“The commission unequivocally dissociates itself from the antics of these scammers and fake employment merchants and reiterates the fact that its recruitment portal is no longer active and was shut down the moment the commission suspended its recruitment exercise.”
The commission had previously – on May 30, 2020 and December 31, 2020 – drawn the attention of the public to the circulation of purported letters of employment/appointment emanating from it.
