Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital raises alarm over job scams

From Mustapha Adamu, Kano

The management of the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) in Kano state has distanced itself from the fraudulent offers of employment purportedly issued in its name.
In a statement by Hauwa Muhammad Abdullahi, Deputy Director Press and Public Relations of AKTH, the management said it received the information that two unsuspecting members of the public have been duped of huge sums of money by fraudsters.
The statement said the suspected fraudsters falsely claimed to have the influence to secure employment and contracts from the hospital to people.
According to the statement, the fraudsters reportedly engaged their victims in telephone conversations while pretending to be senior management personnel of the hospital and demanded for bribes from their victims in exchange for non-existent jobs or contracts.
The management therefore stated that it has nothing to do with the unidentified fraudsters, emphasising that “the hospital has proceedures and standard channels of communication as provided for in the rules and regulations governing the conduct of its activities and other Federal Government institutions.”
“The rules and regulations exist to protect the Hospital and its genuine customers and clients from such callous fraudsters,” said the management.
“The Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital management hereby advise anyone duped by any fraudsters to report the matter to the relevant security agencies that possess the technical capacity to forensically investigate and trace the bank accounts used by the criminals and ultimately apprehend them for prosecution,” the management said in the statement.
In the statement, the management recalled that earlier this year, “the attention of the Information and Public Relations Unit as well as the Information Technology Unit of the Hospital was drawn to a fictitious Facebook account bearing the name of the Chief Medical Director of the Hospital, Professor Abdurrahman Abba Sheshe.”
“Commenting on the issue, the Chief Medical Director of the Hospital said that his attention was drawn to the fake and fraudulent Facebook account and called on members of the public to disregard it.
“He strongly warned staff of the Hospital and the general public to desist from accepting friendship requests from it or interacting with the keepers and manipulators of the fake Facebook account in whatever way because it does not belong to him.”