Re-Screening Of 2,000 Dismissed Recruits Not Negotiable - NIS
Many candidates lost their lives and others sustained grave wounds during the last purported Immigratiom recruitment process. One can quickly recall that some recruits were employed by a Presidential Committee set up by former President, Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 following the tragedy that marred the March 2014 recruitment exercise.
The Nigeria Immigration Service has made public their resolve to re-screen those whose names were penciled down before issuing out appointment letters to them. A move which has distinctly erupted into riots and the recruits had intensified protests in Abuja.
However, NIS has affirmed that it would press on with the re-screening of the 2,000 dismissed immigration recruits, in spite of their continued protest. NIS spokesperson, Ekpedeme King, disclosed this in Abuja on Tuesday.
King revealed that screening of the dismissed “applicants” whose names were earlier published in newspapers would take place as scheduled at the NIS Headquarters, Abuja, from August 29 to September 4. While explaining that the proposed background checks on the “applicants” which included security clearance, drug test, certificate verification and age on rank were mandatory before any employment into the sevice.
In his words: “The background checks are a normal practice globally when recruiting personnel into military and paramilitary agencies. Let me say that failure to submit oneself for screening would be regarded as withdrawal of interest in the recruitment exercise,”
He however pointed out that the exercise was not a fresh recruitment and urged members of the public not to forward any employment application.
The protest of the dismissed immigration intakes, however, took a different outlook when they joined members of the Bring Back our Girls (BBOG) movement on Monday to march to the presidential villa to demand their reinstatement.
