Nigeria Unemployed Youth Vanguard (NUYV) has called for the compensation of the families of the dead applicants in the last Saturday Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) aptitude tests stampede that claimed over 15 lives.
The group in a statement jointly signed by its National Coordinator and Publicity Secretary, Com. Solomon Adodo and Danesi Momoh, respectively, said it would not be “wise for people to play politics with the issue or using it to score cheap popularity”.
“We call on all political elements to desist from playing politics with the dead and/or living unemployed youth but rather seek ways of addressing the challenge at hand,” it said.
“It is very clear that prior to this time, recruitment exercises in
the NIS were fraught with irregularities including buying of jobs and all forms of favoritism. The new recruitment template set out by the Ministry of Interior has thus far curbed the chances of these negative tendencies,” it added.
While calling for the Ministry for Interior to thoroughly probe the matter and meet out adequate sanctions to culprits, the group told the government to take full responsibility for the treatment of the injured applicants.
The statement explained that calling for the removal of the Minister of Interior, Comrade Patrick Abba Moro, was not an antidote, but government at all levels and other “stakeholders should redouble efforts to create more jobs for the teeming unemployed youth”.
It added: “We believe the steps taken by the Minister of Interior will give all applicants equal opportunities.
Therefore the Minister of Interior Comr. Abba Moro should be commended rather than the calls for his sack.”
