GEJ Orders Moro To Refund N1,000 Fee To Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) Job Seekers

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President Goodluck Jonathan has reportedly ordered embattled
Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, to refund the N1,000 application fee
collected from job seekers who were to write the ill fated Nigerian
Immigration Service (NIS) aptitude test that turned sour at the weekend.

Scores of youths lost their lives in a stampede in Abuja and several
other cities, including pregnant women, when they presented themselves
for the screening exercise organised by the NIS.

The President had on Monday summoned both the minister and
Comptroller General of the NIS, David Paradang, apparently to explain
their roles in the recruitment tragedy.

On its part, the House of Representatives ordered investigation into
the death of about 20 applicants at some venues of the NIS recruitment
exercise.

The House joint Committee on Interior, Labour and Productivity,
Public Service Matters, and Justice was mandated to organise an
investigative public hearing on the matter, and report back its findings
within four weeks.

Senate similarly mandated its Committee on Interior to investigate the recruitment tragedy.

The resolution of the House was a fall-out of a motion at Tuesday
plenary under Matters of Urgent Public Importance by a member, Karimi
Sunday, who expressed concerns on the manner the exercise was conducted,
leading to the death of innocent job seekers.

The House while condemning the tragedy, further called on the Federal
Government to take steps towards identifying relatives of the deceased
victims, and offer them automatic employments, since in members’
opinion, the victims died in active service to the nation.

The House also commiserated with the families of the deceased, as
well as empathise with those who suffered injuries as a result of the
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