Nigeria's Minister of
Interior, Mr. Abba Moro yesterday blamed applicants for the deaths
that occurred at different venues of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS)
recruitment test.
Moro said, "The
applicants lost their lives due to impatience; they did not follow the laid
down procedures spelt out to them before the exercise. Many of them jumped
through the fences of affected centres and did not conduct themselves in an
orderly manner to make the exercise a smooth one. This caused stampede and made
the environment unsecured.
He also stated that the Deputy
Comptroller, Immigration Operations and Passport, told him that the test
was cancelled in Lagos due to unruly behavior of the applicants.
19 job seekers including 4
pregnant women lost their lives yesterday in different parts of the country
during the NIS recruitment test.
According to Vanguard, 16
persons were feared dead over the weekend at
different venues of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) recruitment
test with over 125,000 applicants in Abuja and Lagos alone were chasing
4,500 jobs. Thousands fainted from stampede and exhaustion.
These casualty figures from the
recruitment test centres of the National Immigration Service (NIS), held across
the country,told the story of Nigeria’s frightening unemployment situation.
NIS allegedly raked N6billion from the applicants as
processing fee. Each applicant paid N1,000.
At the National Stadium, Abuja, which was the centre for
the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, eight applicants were reported dead.
Four others were feared dead at
the Port Harcourt, Rivers State centre, three in Minna, Niger State and one in
Benin-City, Edo State.Unconfirmed reports claimed the Benin-City victim was a
pregnant applicant.
Stampede was reported in Akure where 12,000 were invited
for the test.
Thousands of certificates were
allegedly lost at the Ondo State centre.
At the Abuja centre, the
thousands of applicants were overwhelmed with emotions as eight of their
colleagues were allegedly taken to the mortuary.
About 50 were said to have
fainted and several others injured.
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