The Oyo State Government has fired 662 workers from the state civil and public service for using fake WAEC certificate to secure their jobs.
The state Head of Service (HOS), Mr. Soji Eniade who disclosed this, said about 2,021 workers with fictitious names were also removed from the state’s payroll.
He said the Bank Verification Number (BVN), which was used to determine the accurate size of the workforce and pensioners, exposed 1,432 fictitious state pensioners’ names, 84 fictitious local government pensioners and 505 fictitious workers in the state civil and public service, amounting to 2021.
Eniade pointed out that 670 workers that were discovered to have submitted forged certificates, 8 out of them resubmitted their WASSCE certificates for re-verification while the remaining 662 had been summarily dismissed and the onus is now on them to prove that the WASSCE certificates in their possession are original.
It was discovered that 305 of the personnel were from the local government, 152 from ministries, 149 from Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM), 28 from parastatals and two from the State Universal Basic Education Board.
