Secret recruitment EOCO uncovered

Copious information available indicate that the Economic and Organised-Crime Office (EOCO), formerly known as the Serious Fraud Office), has begun a secret recruitment exercise to bring on board new members of staff.

The on-going recruitment exercise, which began on Monday, September 12, 2011, according to plausible sources, has already seen an appreciable number of people being interviewed, while some have actually been asked to come for their appointment letters soon.
Investigations by Today revealed that such a mode of secret recruitment has become systematic since it was adopted by the current management of EOCO upon its first assumption of office.
That mode of employment, according to our findings, allows management personnel and senior officers of the state agency to offer employment to their family relations and cronies.
Today also learnt that this is about the second time the anti-corruption state agency is using secret means to recruit new personnel.
The first was in May/June last year where about 70 people, mainly family members, tribes-men and- women, and cronies were employed from across the country.
As a government agency, EOCO is expected to advertise vacancies in the newspapers for prospective Ghanaians who want to work with it to apply.
That process of transparency, our findings have obviously established, has been ditched for the current secret recruitment.
“This has been the method of our current management anytime they want to bring on board new personnel. And they do it secretly which allows them to offer employment to their family members and natives,” a grapevine source told Today.
The paper also gathered that the continuous ‘repressive’ management style currently at work at the EOCO is working against the stream of most workers giving off their best in the interest of the Republic of Ghana.

“Management officials continue to intimidate and frustrate most of the workers and that has accounted for the reason why already an appreciable number of workers have resigned,” the source complained.