The Society for Professional Background Screening (SPBS) has advised corporate organisations and Nigerians in general on the need to conduct background checks before employing their domestic members of staff.
The organisation, which is the umbrella body of Professional Background Screeners in Nigeria, bemoaned the incessant rates of criminal activities of domestic workers that had been on the increase in recent times.
Chairman of SPBS, Kola Olugbodi, in a statement, yesterday, said the move would eliminate criminal tendencies.
According to him, people are being murdered by their domestic staff at an alarming rate with several families losing their loved ones as well as valuables to the workers.
Olugbodi, who stated that there are huge risks in employing domestic members of staff without conducting background checks on them, expressed the readiness of his organisation to cooperate with relevant stakeholders.
He, therefore, called for concerted efforts in totally eliminating criminal acts arising through faulty employment procedures, especially the domestic members of staff.
Besides, he challenged the outsourcing firms that are directly in charge of employing the domestic workers to strongly focus on conducting background checks to forestall any criminal behaviour.
Olugbodi enjoined the firms to reassess their work portfolio with adequate emphasis on background check and to engage in indepth profiling.
He said there should be a database that contains detailed information on prospective domestic staff, which should also serve as a potent tool to eliminate criminal behaviour through proper authentication of claims and verification of information provided by the domestic workers.
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