Centre for Social Justice Limited by Guarantee (CSJ) on behalf of the Stop Impunity Nigeria Campaign has written under the right to information guaranteed to all Nigerians by the Freedom of Information Act requesting for the total number of applicants that applied for the recruitment exercise; The total amount realised from the fees charged and paid by the applicants.
CSJ has also requested to know the bank and the account number where the money realised from the applicants has been paid into; the signatories to the said account and in the alternative, whether the money realised has been paid into the Federation Account and the details of the payment (date, time, cheques, letters of transfer or other evidence of payment,) into the Federation Account;
The organisation has also requested details of the crowd control measures put in place for the nationwide exercise held on March 15 2014; whether there was any drill(s) and rehearsal(s) prior to the recruitment exercise on Saturday March 15th.
Details of the security agencies involved in the crowd control and letters written to get them on board; Names, sex and addresses of persons who lost their lives across the nation while attending the recruitment exercise.
information in respect of the Immigration Service recruitment exercise that took place nationwide on Saturday March 15 2014. We seek the following information.
Attorney to CSJ, Kingsley Nnajiaka in a statement in Abuja said: “Our request is further strengthened by section 48 (1) of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2007 which requires the federal government to ensure that its financial and fiscal affairs are conducted in a transparent manner and accordingly ensure full and timely disclosure and wide publication of all transactions and decisions involving public revenues and expenditures and their implications for its finances.”
