The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) has said the call for the sacking or resignation of the Minister of Interior, Abba Patrick Moro, and the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) Comptroller General, David Parradang, following the loss of lives at the recruitment exercise was not a solution.
A statement issued by its Assistant Secretary General, Chukwuemeka Ekenaka, said the event was painful, adding, however, that it was also important that politicising it would rather worsen and create “bad blood amongst the citizens.”
According to the statement, some politicians have taken advantage of the unfortunate incidence to vent their anger at the Minister, and that this is wrong.
The statement said: “We have observed with gross disdain and disgust efforts by politicians who have axes to grind with the minister and the comptroller General attempt to incite Nigerians and also call for the removal of the duo whose only crime is their attempt to bring unemployment to a minimal level with the attempted mass recruitment.
“We grief and sympathise with the parents who have lost loved ones in the course of this exercise. It is very unfortunate that young Nigerians considered the leaders of tomorrow will lose their lives in an exercise meant to better their lives and nation.”
It urged Nigerians to reflect on the motive behind the incidence rather than being sentimental on its resultant outcome.
“We call on Nigerians to reflect deeply and see the motive of the exercise and not play the game of sentimentality and allow our good judgments themselves to be clouded by emotions which are obviously sad.
“It is pertinent to remind us that unemployment has eaten deep and become a canker worm in the life of this great nation and any attempt at depleting the number of unemployed Nigerians should rather be commended than chastised.”
