… Omenogor not an IT professional
The Computer Professional (Registration Council) of
Nigeria (CPN) has disowned Mr. Romeo Omenogor over N9.2 million fraud at the
United Bank of Africa (UBA), saying he is not a registered Information
Technology (IT) professional.
The
Registrar cum Chief Executive Officer of CPN, Mr. Shehu Sekiru, made this
clarification in a press statement made available to ITRealms Online, saying
that abinitio, the 10-year fraudster, Mr. Omenogor is not a registered IT
professional in the country, therefore should not be referred to as an IT specialist in the first instance.
“Therefore,
he was not supposed to be employed by the bank abinitio,” he argued.
Reacting
to a publication that implicated Mr. Omenogor, he said that CPN has used
different medium to enlighten employers of labour and members of the public on
the risk involved in employing unregistered IT practitioners to handle IT jobs
in their organizations.
This,
according to him, is because their investment in Information could only be
protected by employing skillful, competent and knowledgeable people who are
known and certified as professionals by their professional bodies.
To this effect, he
said that CPN has specifically written the management of UBA in an effort to
encourage the organization to ensure appropriate registration of their IT
staff.
He recalled that Computer
Professionals (Registration Council) of Nigeria was established through Act No
49 of 1993, stressing that the Act was passed into law on June 10 and gazetted on
August 9 of the same year.
“It is a corporate entity
that is charged with the regulation, control and supervision of the computing
profession and practice in Nigeria in line with Section 1 (2) of the Act,” he
said, asserting that CPN is under the supervision of the Federal Ministry of
Education.
Remmy Nweke
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