By Suleiman Anyalewechi
The Nasarawa State House of Assembly, on Monday, July 7, 2025, waded into the teachers recruitment scandal rocking the State, with a firm promise to assist victims recover their money from the employment racketeering gang.
The Source reports that the Nasarawa State Teachers Service Commission, TSC, under its suspended Chairman, Mohammed Gada, was recently immersed in money-for-employment scam in which about 3000 unsuspecting applicants were fleeced of several millions.of Naira for non-exist teaching positions in the State’s Primary and Secondary Schools .
Most of the applicants were said to have paid as much as between N500,000 and N1 million each to agents and proxies of the suspended TSC Chairman.
Mr Adigizi Abaya, in his submission to the House Adhoc Committee investigating the scandal, revealed that as a front for the former chairman, he received about N 14 million, from 28 applicants ,and remitted same into his account without getting any single appointment letter.
Similarly, an Evaluation Officer with the State Ministry of Education, Yamusa Amos informed that as an agent for the former TSC chairman, he collected funds from several applicants with none receiving an appointment letter.
The Chairman of the House Investigating Committee, Hon Daniel Ogazi, while sympathizing with the aggrieved and beleaguered victims, assured them that every necessary stepsl will be taken to recover their money.
He enjoined them to be honest and straightforward in their submissions to the Committee so as not to create unnecessary bottlenecks in the course of the investigation .
” We invited you here to avail the House Committee of all you know about the entire exercise .We will be expecting you to tell us who issued you with the appointment letters ,and how much you paid to get the job.
“Be sincere as you are speaking on oath. We want to assure you that justice will be served at the end of the day”, Onazi ,stated .
This is as the Committee asked the embattled former TSC chairman to re-appear before it ,on Wednesday July 9, 2025, to throw light on some issues, particularly regarding the claims by some of the victims.
The Committee Chairman further informed that a formal directive has been issued to the State Commissioner for Education to produce one Michael Jonyi of the Area Inspectorate Division, as well as all other staff of the Ministry directly or remotely connected with the scandal same Wednesday.
“We will write to the Commissioner of Police and Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps NSCDC to bring their officers involved in the scandal on Wednesday this week by 10 .am”, the House Committee chairman noted.
Earlier, the victims separately and collectively appealed to the law makers to assist them in recovering their money.
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