The government of Osun on Sunday admitted that scam has hit the recruitment of teachers it conducted.
The government asked those who applied to be teachers under its recruitment scheme to disregard scammers who are circulating a fake list of successful applicants on social media.
Government said it is contacting successful applicants through text messages and voice notes.
Commissioner for Education, Mr. Folorunsho Oladoyin, who stated this via a statement in the state capital, said his Ministry has not released any list to the public.
He explained that the one thousand successful applicants are already being contacted through text messages and voice notes in batches.
The statement read partly, “It has been brought to the notice of the State Government that a fake list of shortlisted candidates for the Osun Teacher’s Recruitment is trending on the social media.
“I want to state in strong terms that the purported list of successful candidates did not emanate from the Ministry of Education and the names and examination numbers are not the same with what we have in our porter. Whatever list that is trending out there is fake and remains the handiwork of mischief-makers and should be disregarded accordingly.
“Let me use this medium to stress again that the administration of Governor Adegboyega Oyetola remains committed to revamping the State’s education sector and the recruitment of qualified teachers will not be compromised in any form, Hon. Oladoyin stated.”
There have been complaints that the recruitment which allegedly started since 2018 has taken too long.
Each applicant was asked to pay N3,000 for application forms. Several thousands of indigenes applied.
The government said it has shortlisted 1000 candidates.
Findings by the NPO Reports indicate that the exercise has been bugged by various attempts by some compromise.
The government has said it would not allow fraud to taint the exercise.
However, some of the applicants have called out the government for selling forms to thousands of applicants whereas it has only spaces for 1000 applicants.