Deadly NIS recruitment: Applicants drag FG to court Four co-applicants of the deadly Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) acting for themselves and as representatives of other applicants to Nigeria Immigration Service 2014 recruitment exercise yesterday dragged the federal government before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, seeking an order to declare that the conduct or the execution of the recruitment exercise illegal, unwarranted, in violation of the applicants’ fundamental rights to life. The plaintiffs who filed the suit at the registry of the court brought the application under Sections 33,34, and 44 of the 1999 Constitition (amended) and the equivalent articles of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Right Act. Also joined as respondents in the suit are the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Ministry of Interior, Nigerian Immigration Service and its Comptroller General, David Shikfu Parradang. The applicants, Charles Ugwuonye, Friday Danlami, Chinedu Onwuka and Samson Ojo through their counsel ,Emeka Ugwuonye had among other things want the court to declare the recruitment exercise illegal and restrain the NIS from spending the money realized from the recruitment exercise. They also want the court to order the respondents to refund the recruitment money to the applicants, pay the sum of N1m to each applicant and N50m to deceased applicants as general damages. They also want the the court to direct the Respondents to refund each Applicant the sum of N1,000 which he or she paid to participate in the Recruitment Exercise and also an order directing the Respondents to pay general damages in the amount of N1 million to each living Applicant for the violation of the Applicant’s rights as enumerated in this Application.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:33:20 +0000
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