The House of Representatives on
Thursday summoned the management of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) to
explain its failure to adhere to its promise to compensate families of the 45
victims who died and the 137 injured applicant during the 2014 recruitment
stampede.
The NIS would appear before a
three-man committee made up of the Majority Leader, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila,
Minority Leader, Hon. Leo Ogor and Hon. Aminu Shehu Shagari (Sokoto APC). The
committee is expected to submit its report in a week.
Following the outrage at the
circumstances where over 60,000 applicants showed up to take tests for 4000
vacancies, resulting in a stampede at the National stadium in Abuja, the
Federal Government had promised to compensate the injured victims and the
families of the dead victims.
The families of the victims,
protesting outside the National Assembly on Thursday, said the promise by
President Goodluck Jonathan to employ three persons from the families of the
deceased, and to give automatic employment to those who were injured, is yet to
be fulfilled.
The National Coordinator,
Nigerian Immigration Service Recruitment Stampede Victims, Mr Edmund Osasumah,
disclosed that the family members of the
deceased were issued employment letters on March 11, 2015, but are yet to
resume work as NIS promised they will start work same time with the injured
victims.
Osasumah added that all 137
injured victims have been screened and cleared by NIS, but are yet to receive
their employment letters despite assurances that the letters are ready.
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