Youths of Ugbokolo town in Okpokwu local government area of Benue state, under the aegis Ugbokolo Youth Council (UYC), have expressed their heartfelt sympathy with the relations, families and friends of those job-seekers who lost their lives during penultimate Saturday’s recruitment exercise conducted by the National Immigration Service (NIS).
They regretted that it was tragic, not only for the victims’ families, friends and relations, but, indeed, the entire country.
This was contained in a statement issued yesterday by the UYC President and Secretary, Comrade John Idoko Ejembi and Comrade Mark Ocheme, respectively.
They said in the statement that it was unfortunate that “an exercise aimed at ensuring more transparency in a recruitment process for a public institution inadvertently turned fatal.”
The statement said: “While we mourn the deaths of the job-seekers with the rest of Nigerians, we are of the belief that the many calls for the sacking of the Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, and the Comptroller-General of Immigration (CGI), Mr David Parradang, can never compensate for the irreparable losses.
“A more proactive action, we believe, would be to demand that the government make earnest efforts to ensure that the families of the deceased are eased of their pains, through adequate compensation and to ensure, through whatever means, that such unfortunate incidents do not occur again.”
According to them, the federal government has already done well to somehow wipe away the tears of the bereaved by offering employment opportunities to three members
