THE IMMIGRATION RECRUITMENT TRAGEDY AND A CRUMBLING NATION BY PETER OPARAH More than the morbid count that emerged from the ill-fated recruitment exercise of the Nigerian Immigration Services last week, the graphic illustration of nearly a million Nigerians packed like sardines in stadia and various public places all over Nigeria, is enough to shock and awe even the most paranoid government out of its shell. The picture of nearly a million Nigerians engaged in a deadly struggle to corner 3,000 jobs is a testimonial good enough to provoke far reaching national outrage. I even heard that millions of teeming unemployed Nigerian youths were made to apply for the 3,000 jobs and were extorted N1,000 each and after extorting over N6 billion from Nigerian jobless youths, over 500,000 of them were shortlisted for the exercise that turned awry. This scenario is worsened by the popular feeling that most of those that will eventually get the placements in a fiercely unjust nation were not among the hapless legion that overfilled public places last Saturday and endured the elements and involuntarily went for each other’s jugular for elusive jobs. It is a national shame. It is a tragedy were this nation still alive to shame and reproach. Someone even commented on the social media that in a normal country, the gory picture of famished Nigerians dropping like dead twigs at various centers of the federation to access elusive jobs is enough to kick start the much anticipated revolution. He said that the sites of that deadly exercise were apt centers for the start of a revolution that would address multifarious issues, chief of which is why millions of Nigerians should go hungry in the midst of plenty and why a few should continue to take liberty of the rest in an increasingly predatory state. But this is not a normal country, it is Nigeria, a hell hole writ large. It is Nigeria, with its ever tolerative inclination to horrible leaders, corrupt and ethically wrecked governments and a subdued and conquered citizenry, easily pliable to the antics and divisive tendencies of their tormentors. Details Here:bioreports.net/news/the-immigration-recruitment-tragedy-and-a-crumbling-nation-by-peter-oparah/
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:02:32 +0000
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