NANS Condemns NIS Youth Deaths, Calls For Sack of Minister, Comptroller General

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Zone B has called for the sacking of the Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro, as well as the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), David Shikfu Parradang. The demand is contained in a statement signed by Pedro C. Obi, Public Relations Officer, in reaction to last Saturday’s death of several youths at various NIS job centres across the country. Expressing total shock and bewilderment over NIS exercise, the students criticized the officials for gross incompetence and lack of common sense. “The overall turnout of millions of Nigerian youths as job seekers for a mere 3,000 job slot in the Nigerian Immigration Services is another attestation of the present pathetic situation facing our youths and graduates in Nigeria,” NANS said. “The death of innocent Nigerians and the numerous injuries recorded at the National Stadium, Abuja and other parts of the country is an axiomatic representation of civil servants inability to handle even a mere recruitment screening exercise, how much more of effectively handling the offices they have been manning for the past years.”