Ojikutu who briefed journalists Tuesday in Lagos said as a recruitment consultant to FAAN at the time when FAAN recruited, he had raised the alarm about certain strange names that were employed yet he never interviewed nor profiled them since there was never interview for the job.
Thus he said, those staff, some of them working in sensitive departments like security departments could not be trusted and should be investigated immediately by FAAN to ascertain their integrity.
"I did a recruitment exercise for the agency and we were supposed to recruit 500. Out of the guidelines that were given to me, I manage to recruit 361 for them and with their political machineries they wanted to make up the balance of 139. I want to refer you to the list that was published which contained some 61 names that never applied, that never did interview, that never did examination. What I am saying is in public domain. People have to read intelligence into what I am saying now because I am getting worried," he said.
According to him, "they were from one state, Bauchi. There was no examination for them; they did not apply for the job like the others; we did not see them during the interview. So, the presence of such people could constitute a threat to airport security. They were just selected contrary to the requirements set by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO)."
He said he was much more worried given that "a certain number of people from a particular state, all the ones that did the interview and were selected were removed, and a new set of people, whom we did not know, that did not undergo any interview were brought on board. I have the list in case anything happens tomorrow."
Ojikutu noted that he is still raising the alarm because the airports are porous. "Almost all our airports are very porous. MMA is porous,"he insisted.
"And I remember I wrote a letter to the National Assembly, the Federal Character Commission to raise the observation and I know they set up a panel. What I am saying now is that inside the letter that I wrote, in case something happens tomorrow, I mentioned it there that I do not want to be called that certain people that I recruited are part of what is happening now. I raised that issue way back in 2007."
