By Ayodele Oni
A syndicate that specializes in illegal recruitment of teachers in Ekiti state has been bursted. The members are now on the run.
Investigations revealed that the syndicate, before its operation was discovered, had succeeded in recruiting and posting not less than 50 teachers to secondary schools in the State.
An inside source within Ekiti state Teaching Service Commission, disclosed that each of the recruited teachers was made to pay fees ranging between N50 and N100 thousand, depending on which area to be posted.
The activities of the syndicate were made easier as some staff of the Commission were among its members.
Also, it took the advantage of the recruitment of teachers by the state government two months ago to rob unsuspecting candidates.
However, the recent tour by officials of the Commission to secondary schools in the state with the list of officially recruited teachers exposed the activities of the group.
The officials, it was further learnt, discovered that some teachers reported to schools, especially, those in rural areas and their names were not in the official list.
Some of them were reported to have taken to their heels when they heard about the visit by the officials.
Officials of the Commission are yet to make public number of those already arrested in connection with the illegal recruitment as they said they were still going round to find out the actual number of teachers illegally recruited by the syndicate.
