Dear youths, #gej is still promising us jobs, have we forgotten so soon, “The unlawful deaths and inhuman degrading treatment of the job-seekers, the violations of their rights to life, dignity and work? A case study of Nigeria Immigration Service, under #gej six (6) years reign. This shows the growing level of economic injustice caused by pervasive corruption and lack of opportunities for Nigerian children to enjoy the right to employment and to gain a living by work, as guaranteed by international and regional human rights treaties to which Nigeria is a state party,” . “The Nigerian government in violation of international law has failed and/or neglected to establish conditions for full employment of Nigerian children and university graduates. This situation is not natural and not beyond the control of the government but it is caused by high level official corruption, mismanagement and contempt for the rights of the citizens.” It is a national shame. But what should shock Nigerians more is the fact that in an oil rich nation, with myriads of scorched earth economic policies that target the famished citizenry for mass extortion, over a million people will engage in a deadly jostle for nearly 3,000 jobs. The pictures emerging from the tragic exercise have been trending in the media since that event; it is enough to jar any decent mind. It is enough to violate the sensibility of any living person. It is enough to speak loudly to the blurred and blunt sensibilities of the people that purportedly manage our resources. It is enough to set any government on the thinking paths on how best to arrest a pestilence that is threatening the very fabrics of over a hundred million Nigerians. One begins to wonder where the millions of jobs the Jonathan government has been boasting of creating are. One wonders who are the beneficiaries of these phantom jobs in the face of dehumanizing want that is ravaging Nigerians like a Teutonic plague. If nearly a million Nigerians turned out for a paltry 3,000 placements in the immigrations services and were subjected to inhuman conditionality as a condition for employment, pray where lies the hope for the teeming masses of poverty-ridden Nigerians that ogle for redemption in a widening circle. But this is a country where tales of hair-raising public stealing and unimaginable corruption predominate public discourse especially in the past one year of our tragic national history. Here is a country where leaders bat no eyelid in plundering the common till and walking away unperturbed with the resources that would have bettered the worsening Nigerian sordid story.
Posted on: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 11:52:24 +0000
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