NEOLIFE: Distributor suspended, one flees as three face arraignment

The organisation, operating in more than 50 countries globally, said its operations were based on global best practices with high regards for integrity as its pillars.

Scores of Nigerians, including students, were allegedly promised fake jobs and mouth-watering offers to work for NEOLIFE, which operates through partnerships with independent distributors and does not offer employments to individuals.

Following a discrete investigations by the company in collaboration with the police, a syndicate in the Edo State capital was uncovered to be allegedly involved in inviting candidates to attend fake job interviews in some locations.

A police source said: “At the interview venues, however, they start coaching them on how to market NEOLIFE products using all manners of tricks and at all cost. The jobseekers are made to believe that they are working for NEOLIFE.

“Once you get into the ‘interview’ sessions, no one is allowed to go out or use phones. A widow, who was invited to benefit from the distribution of relief package in Benin, said she was prevented from leaving the hall after she discovered the organisers were talking marketing of health products instead of the promised relief packages.”

The source added that investigation showed that a young lady, invited from Warri in Delta State to Benin to attend the purported interview, allegedly got a rough deal.

“Trouble started when the lady insisted on seeing the person who invited her for a job interview who she had spoken with on the telephone. The organisers said she could not see the person. During the argument, the applicant claimed she was assaulted and her clothe torn,” the source stated.

While the Zone 5 police command said three people had been summoned and questioned, one of the principal suspects, who was also invited by the police, had fled after her invitation. 

The Zone 5 PPRO, Tijani Momoh, confirmed the arrest of some persons connected with the job scam, noting that others were still at large.

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He said: “I can confirm that some people that are connected to the fake job interviews have been arrested, while others are at large.

“Operatives are on the heels of others who are involved in the case and I am sure that they would be apprehended.”   

The Vice President, Field Development of NEOLIFE, West Africa, Mr Olusanmi Asalu, stated that the investigations had been extended to various parts of the country to fish out those engaging in fraudulent recruitment in the name of the company.

Asalu said: “We don’t offer individuals jobs. We operate in partnership with independent distributors. So, how can anyone claim that he or she has worked for NEOLIFE for years when such person was not employed by our company?”