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Emmanuel Dare, a Kaduna resident, has told FIJ how he was denied an employment opportunity as a social welfare officer at the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Budo-Egba, in Kwara State, after he had been offered an appointment letter.
Dare told FIJ that he secured the job and received an invitation in February to come for the Integrated Payroll and Personnel information system (IPPIS) documentation in March.
It was when he visited the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital in Budo-Egba that the officials he met told him he had no job, despite receiving an appointment letter.
“I got a job, a federal job, in February. The hospital told us to come for our appointment letter and documentation by March 1,” Dare told FIJ on Tuesday.
“They said that we should come on March 1. But they told the prospective employees living in and around Kwara State to come for their documentation on February 23. During this period I was in Kaduna, there was no cash in town and it was a few days before the election. Despite these challenges, I was still able to prepare for the trip and got to Kwara State on March 1. I also got there early.
“I collected my appointment letter that same day. Officials from the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) were around too. Everybody got busy with them. Later on, it was my turn to have my data captured with the IPPIS and they told me that my name was not in their database and they couldn’t do anything about it except I went to meet the hospital officials.
“When I met the officials of the hospital and Professor Baba Issa, the hospital’s CMD, I was told nothing could be done about the omission of my name from the database. They also said that I came late for my documentation
