FG Cancels Controversial Recruitment Into Nigeria Immigration Service

Following allegations of skewed recruitment in favour of applicants from certain section of the country and non-advertisement of its recruitment process, the Minister of Interior, Comrade Abba Moro has directed the immediate cancellation of the ongoing recruitment exercise into the Nigeria Immigration Service.

MRS ROSE C. UZOMA ENMESHED IN RECRUITMENT SCANDAL
MRS ROSE C. UZOMA ALLEGEDLY ENMESHED IN RECRUITMENT SCANDAL AT THE NIS

In a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media, George Udoh, the Minister stated that “following apparent controversy trailing the ongoing recruitment exercise in Nigeria Immigration Service the responsible  thing to do is to cancel the exercise until a more transparent, acceptable and efficable platform is established to enlist qualified Nigerians into the service.”

Comrade Moro directed further that all appointment letters  issued and documentation carried out stand cancelled until the Civil Defence immigration and Prisons Service board, meet to consider the waiver granted the Nigeria Immigration Service to recruit men and women into the service.

It would be recalled that the Controller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Mrs Rosemary Chinyere Uzoma, who has just three months to the expiration of her tenure, while defending the secret recruitment exercise into the service at the insistence of the House of Representatives Committee on Federal Character, said, the decision was taken so as not to unknowingly recruit terrorists into the highly sensitive organization.

18 COMMENTS

  1. Nice job from the FG, with the excuse that was given about the secret recruitment i don’t buy it well, because it’s not a guarantee that the bad eggs will not penetrate, the most and secure way of doing it is the screening should be done without bias.

  2. Talking abt Terrorists, isn’t the duties of the Immigration service to screen nd satisfy that person a foreigner or not. Come to think this! Custom service should b the next to b looked into cos we are all Nigerians than allowing the High nd privilege once always given the opportunity.

  3. That is great, the FG should equal move to other forces and do the same. This inservice recruitment is nt doing well, so many graduates are out there without job ending their lives in crimes. The best to do is to put the recruitment exercise on newspapers and internet. With this, so many nigerian graduates wil struggle and whom the cap fits let him wear, thanks.