Don’t Blame Applicants For Immigration Tragedy - NLC Tells Minister Abba Moro

Don’t Blame Applicants For Immigration Tragedy - NLC Tells Minister Abba Moro

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) said to Abba Moro, the minister of interior, not to blame the job seekers for the unfortunate death of applicants which happened during the recruitment exercise of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) last weekend.

According to a latter addressed to the minister through the comptroller of the NIS, Mr David Shikfu Parradang, the NLC described such avoidable deaths of job seekers as an unacceptable development.

The letter from the NLC stated that the "minister is wrong to blame the victim applicants/job-seekers and the blames must go to the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) bureaucracy which reportedly collected illegally as much as N6billion from applicants but failed woefully in putting appropriate mechanisms for genuine aptitude tests and applicants crowd control."

A copy of this letter became available to newsmen yesterday in Kaduna, it was signed by the vice president of NLC, Comrade Issa Aremu. In 2008, similar exercise by the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) ended in the unacceptable deaths of scores of applicants, according to the letter.

The letter also requested that the President must take preventive actions to prevent shameless exhibition of incompetence and non-service delivery by some of his ministers.

"The Honourable Minister of Interior must get to the bottom of the recent deaths, failing which he must resign from administering a Ministry increasingly notorious for employment scandals and employment tragedies," the NLC stated.

The NLC further averred that "the nation has witnessed much of distortions in the labour market in recent time from casualization to employment rackets at the centre of which has been the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS). We recall with pain how the former Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Mrs. Rose Chinyere Uzoma, allegedly sold 4,000 employment slots approved by the Federal Government to job applicants and allocated some to other government personalities."

The NLC's letter stated that a nation that is signatory to relevant ILO standards with respect to Decent Work should stop this serial tragedy.

The NLC is demanding an immediate compensation for the victims of the avoidable recruitment stampede by the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) and an assurance that avoidable deaths of scores of Nigerian job seekers which has characterized NIS recruitment exercise in the recent time must stop.

Source: Legit.ng

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