By Abdulmumini Adeku
The last has not been heard of the recent immigration job application procedures that
went badly at the National Stadium in Abuja ,as fresh facts are now emerging at
how the Delta State government ripped off applicants a little over a year ago.
In an exclusive investigations by Paedia Express Multimedia
in Lagos, Nigeria ,it was discovered that about two years ago to be precise an
applicant responded to an advertorial placed in one of the national newspapers
by the Delta State Polytechnic for people to apply for various positions
in the state’s citadel of learning.
Paedia Express leant through checks that each of the applicant
were made to part with as much as N2,000
for just 100 places that were up for grabs at the time., though not less
than 1,000 applicants applied for the job in question.
It was noted that each of the applicant sat for an aptitude
test wherein the grains would have been separated from the shafts.
The source speaks:we sat for an aptitude test but my contact
in the place told me that he could not remember the script been marked for a
day after the supposed examination,so what that means is that different criteria
was used other than merit”
“I was later told that I should try to befriend a high ranking government officials
as this will help me to getting the job,because of the public outcry over the amount
we paid for something hat was meant to have been free the Delta state government
ordered that there should be a refund of our money”
He lamented that as at press time, two years after the
incident he has not gotten his refund despite the instruc5tions to that effect.
He revealed that all efforts to use contacts like state
commissioners, advisers, top politicians to get the job failed as they all said
that it was the Governor and the principal officers of the state house of
assembly that had the final prerogative on the matter.
In a related issue,a source told Paedia Express Multimedia
in Lagos that except if the government braces up by fixing vital organs of
business like the power sector which has led to a buoyant sector like textile
closing up ,the issue of man applicants seeking for none existent jobs like
that witnessed during the immigration incident in Abuja will remain a common
place.
The Nigerian Textile sector once has as many as eight
million people at work before the closure of the sector principally due to
power related crisis.
Some of this Nigerians were looking for jobs recently during the
Nigerian immigration service jobs application exercise that soon led to
suffocation,stampede and death
