NIS recruitment: Immigration to engage victims in fresh exercise

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) said on Monday that  victims of the botched March 15 recruitment would be employed after a fresh exercise.

Mr Chukwuemeka Obua, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the service, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja.

On March 15 the service conducted a nationwide recruitment that claimed the lives of some applicants while several others were injured due to a stampede in some centres.

Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, has announced in a statement on March 15 the setting up of a committee to assist the Paramilitary Board in conducting a fresh exercise.

The statement said the committee would liaise with the board to confirm the actual number of personnel to be recruited and assist in re-advertising the recruitment with a view to starting the process afresh.

It said the committee would also assist the board by processing the applications, short-listing potential candidates and conducting the necessary interviews for the purpose of the exercise.

The committee was to ensure that three family members of each of the deceased applicants, at least one of whom should be a female, and those injured, were given immediate and automatic employment in the service.

The committee was given 12 weeks to complete its assignment.

Obua said that although the date for the fresh exercise was yet to be fixed, the committee which had Mr David Parradang, the Comptroller-General of the Service as member, was working tirelessly to ensure a hitch free exercise.

“The committee is more transparent and is currently working out modalities for a fresh exercise.

“I have been contacted to draft advertorials to inform suitable applicants who wish to partake in the exercise,” he said.

He said that applicants of the botched recruitment who wished to partake in the fresh exercise must apply again as the President had cancelled the March 15 exercise.

(NAN)