The ongoing verification of civil and public servants in Delta State has exposed a shocking case of impersonation, after a woman was found to have secured employment using her daughter’s certificate.
Chairman of the Delta State Civil Service Commission, Mrs. Roseline Amioku, disclosed this while speaking with management staff of the Delta Printing and Publishing Corporation (DPPC), publishers of The Pointer Newspaper, led by the General Manager, Mrs. Rosemary Nwaebuni.
Amioku said the suspect not only got the job through fraudulent means but also rose through the ranks with the forged document until the verification exercise exposed her.
“There was a woman who used her daughter’s certificate and even got promoted with it. When I confronted her, she initially denied, claiming she wrote the primary six examination herself. But after police intervention was requested, she broke down and confessed,” Amioku narrated.
According to her, the woman admitted that her daughter rejected the job offer, prompting her to take it up.
“I told her to write her resignation letter immediately since she had confessed. She did, and I endorsed it,” she added.
The commission chairman lamented that several workers in the state had been caught falsifying their ages, forging certificates, and employing other fraudulent tactics to remain on the government payroll beyond their retirement years.
She revealed that some employees had gone as far as tampering with class registers and baptismal cards, while others presented affidavits that collapsed under scrutiny.
“In one case, a man claimed to have been born in 1974. But after cross-checking his school records, it became clear he could not have finished primary school at the age of nine. When pressed further, he confessed he was born in 1960, meaning he added 14 years to his age,” Amioku said.
She noted that the exercise was not a witch-hunt but a measure to ensure transparency and create opportunities for younger job seekers.
“It is unfair when parents remain in service forever, depriving the younger generation of employment opportunities.
“We are determined to clean up the system, and once discrepancies are discovered, affected workers are immediately removed from the payroll,” she stressed.
Amioku disclosed that some offenders might be made to refund salaries illegally earned, while others would face legal consequences, especially those involved in outright forgery.
The verification exercise, she maintained, had already exposed “hundreds” of fake First School Leaving Certificates and other falsified documents, with reports being compiled for government action.
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