About 140 workers of Kaduna Electricity Distributions Company have been laid-off for academic qualifications racketeering.

A press statement issued in Kaduna on Wednesday by the Head, Corporate Communications of the company, Abdulazeez Abdullahi, quoted the Head, Human Resources of the company, Mrs. Khadijat D. Kabir as saying that the affected workers committed offences ranging from presenting fake result, tampering with their grades to non-completion of approved courses.

According to Kabir, “the exercise was painstakingly carried-out by a consultant engaged by the company to ensure that all forms of examination frauds by any employee of the company is fished out.”

She said Kaduna Electric as a responsible corporate brand, shall leave no stone unturned to ensure that its workforce is only made up of people with integrity.

She advised the company’s workers to imbibe the virtues of honesty, sincerity, truthfulness and moral uprightness in all their dealings.

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