The President of the Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria, Shehu Sani, has commented on the news that the Nigeria’s Space Agency was employing graduates of Religious Studies.

The Senator’s tweet comes after the Deputy Senate Majority Leader and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Science and Technology, Ajayi Boroffice, revealed that the Space Agency that should be employing scientists and engineers was employing graduates of Religious Studies and other unrelated courses.

Boroffice said this in Abuja at the annual National Space Dialogue/Media Conference on Space Science and Technology on Friday.

He said the agency needed to be sanitized as such actions amount to misemployment considering the fact that the support staff of the agency constitute about 80 per cent of the workforce.

Boroffice stated that for efficiency, the agency needed scientists to constitute about 70 per cent of the workforce instead of what is in existence.

Boroffice added that the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission is presently scrutinizing the employment documents of the agency.

He also alleged that people are made to pay between N2 million and N2.5 million to get a job in the space agency.

He said: “How can you be taking people with religious studies in space centre?

“It is misemployment when the support staff that constitute about 80 per cent are the workforce.

“It is wrong.

“We need experience.

“We need scientists to constitute about 70 per cent of the workforce, but the reverse is the case.

“I learnt that the ICPC is around, scrutinizing employment documents.

“I heard employment is earned with N2 million, N2.5 million.

“It is sad.

“We have to reexamine ourselves.