Nigeria's internal secret service, the State Security Service (SSS), is enmeshed in a recruitment scandal following the exposure of a shocking lopsidedness in the composition of the new officers recently absorbed into the agency. Ostensibly to ensure compliance with the federal character principle in the exercise, applicants were last year made to sit for recruitment examinations in the capitals of their states of origin. However, it has emerged that the authorities paid scant regards to the federal character principle in the final selection of the cadets. The Commission has the responsibility of ensuring compliance with the federal character principle in recruitment into the federal civil service and agencies. ---Exclusive: SSS in 2017 Recruitment Scandal premiumtimesng.comSTATESNumber EmployedAbia7Adamawa19Akwa Ibom5Anambra10Bauchi23Bayelsa7Benue9Borno16Cross River9Delta8Ebonyi7Edo6Ekiti12Enugu9FCT7Gombe14Imo11Jigawa14Kaduna24Kano25Katsina51Kebbi16Kogi11Kwara13Lagos7Nassarawa11Niger11Ogun8Ondo9Osun10Oyo11Plateau9Rivers7Sokoto15Taraba16Yobe12Zamfara20

Source: The North Africa Journal April 28, 2017 07:41 UTC