The Police
Command in Enugu State has cautioned public office holders and business moguls
against employing personal aides without doing proper background checks on
them.
The command’s Spokesman, SP Ebere Amaraizu, gave the warning in an interview
with newsmen on Wednesday in Enugu. Amaraizu said that it had become clear with
some investigations that most aides of some public office holders and business
moguls compromised their bosses’ security. He said that at times these aides
connived with criminal elements to undo their bosses by compromising security
information. He said that besides compromising such information, some actually
engaged in “outright sell out of their bosses’’.
“It is not just enough to see
someone and employ him , especially when the person would be your personal aide
like a messenger, driver, cook or a security guard attached to you or to your
home.
“It is not just enough to say that a trusted friend of yours recommended
or directed the aide to you for employment before picking him.
“There is a
great need today, with the prevailing dynamism of crime, to conduct a thorough
background check as well as know the antecedent of any would-be aide. “Thorough
background check and antecedent’s data would help you to understand the person
better as well as be able to monitor if an aide had started having change in
character and friends,’’ he said.
The command spokesman said that it had been
discovered overtime that most aides do more for their bosses beyond their
normal work schedule. “At times bosses do not take notice that their aides
overhear confidential personal and business discussions within their homes or
in their vehicles. “Some bosses even send their aides to bank to complete their
personal bank transactions for them,’’ Amaraizu said.
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