Jonathan Orders Moro To Refund N1,000 Fee To NIS Job Seekers President Goodluck Jonathan has reportedly ordered embattled Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, totrefund 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 exercise.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 12:59:58 +0000
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