The Department of State Services (DSS) says it is not currently recruiting and therefore, cautions the public against falling into the hands of fraudsters.
Dr Peter Afunanya, Public Relations Officer of the service, made this known in a statement on Tuesday, January 6, in Abuja.
He said that the clarification became necessary, following desperate efforts by fraudsters to scam unsuspecting job seekers or their sponsors.
According to the DSS official, the public should note that recruitment into the service is never done on a monetary basis but guided by merit and transparency.
“Beneficiaries undergo a series of screening and vetting processes; and procedures through which only the best, produced by these, is taken.
“In the context of this, the public should be mindful of attempts by fraudulent persons and groups; to fleece them of their hard-earned money,” he said.
He urged the public to report any suspicion in connection to the said recruitment to the service.
Afunanya warned perpetrators of the false DSS recruitment alert to desist from the act; or be ready to face the music.
He pledged the commitment of the service to ensure clamping down on activities of fake job syndicates; illegally using its name to deceive and scam the public.
Meanwhile, the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Muhammed Babandede, has issued a warning to foreigners who fail to present their COVID-19 test certificates on arrival in the country, stating they will have their visas revoked.
Babandede further explained that he has the powers as enshrined in the Immigration Act to revoke visas; and confiscate passports of offenders; stressing that the next visa for global travel is the COVID-19 certificate.
The NIS boss made this assertion at the weekly briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja on Tuesday, January 5.
He assured that the 100 travellers under a travel ban for flouting the mandatory seven-day post-arrival COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction test can not obtain fresh passports or compromise the NIS officers; also adding that the system was automated and cannot be bypassed or manipulated.
The NIS boss stated, “The public health is a big issue in the country; and based on that directives, we have also complied by blocking 100 passports from travelling; which means, even if they go to the police and declare those passports missing, they cannot be reissued anywhere in the world; and they also cannot cross our national borders until the period of six months; or communication received from the right authorities stating that they have complied.
“This will also include non-Nigerians; we have the powers to revoke visas; the comptroller-general has the power to revoke visas.”
