The Nigerian President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan Wednesday, directed the immediate cancellation of the immigration recruitment exercise which led to the death of more than twenty applicants and scores of others injured.
The presidential directive was given at today’s Federal Executive Council meeting where the president further directed that all those who lost their loved ones would have automatic slot for three applicants, one of whom must be a woman.
Those who sustained injuries and are currently hospitalised be given automatic employment in the service. Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, disclosed this to State House correspondents on Wednesday at the end of the Federal Executive Council meeting which was devoted to the incident.
While President Jonathan cancelled the ill-fated exercise, he has also set up a committee led by the Chairman of the Federal Civil Service Commission, to conduct a fresh exercise. The committee has the Comptroller-General of NIS as well as representatives of the Inspector-General of Police and the heads of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Coprs, Nigerian Prisons Service, State Security Service and the Federal Road Safety Commission as members.
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