Society For Professional Background Screening Urges Nigerians to Conduct Due Diligence on Domestic Staff

The Society For Professional Background Screening (SPBS ) has alerted corporate organizations and Nigerians in general to conduct due diligence before employing their domestic staff.

The Organization,which is the umbrella body of Professional Background Screeners in Nigeria bemoaned the incessant rates of criminal activities of domestic staff which has been on the increase in recent times.

The Chairman of SPBS, Kola Olugbodi in a statement alerted Nigerians on the need to conduct background checks on their domestic staff which will eliminate criminal tendencies.

According to him ; People are being murdered by their domestic staff at an alarming rate. He also added that several families have lost their loved ones as well as valuables to domestic staff.

Olugbodi who stated that there are huge risks in employing domestic staff without conducting background checks on them .The attendant risks associated with lack of due diligence is a serious one..

The SPBS helmsman who expressed the readiness of his organization to cooperate with relevant stakeholders called for concerted efforts in totally eliminating criminal acts arising through faulty employment procedures especially the domestic staff..He challenged outsourcing firms who are directly in charge of employing domestic staff to strongly focus on conducting background checks to forestall any criminal behaviour .

In order to forestall the spate of killings and kidnappings which is widespread in the country now, Olugbodi enjoined outsourcing firms to reassess their work portfolio with adequate emphasis on background check. This should also be reinforced with indepth profiling of domestic staff..In his words;” When there are stringent and well laid down procedures for employing domestic staff, crime will be totally eliminated or reduced to the barest minimum”

According to him ,there should be a database that should contain detailed information on prospective domestic staff.This will be a potent tool to eliminate criminal behaviour through proper authentication of claims and verification of information provided by the domestic staff .

He further asserted that proper background checks, due diligence and authentication of employee claims will prevent the bad incidents of killings being witnessed in the country.

Olugbodi harped on the need to ensure safety of lives and properties through adequate focus on background check for domestic staff.