The current scale of unemployment was a challenge, which should get the government worried instead of its agencies extorting money from the unemployed. “We condemn in the strongest terms possible, the recruitment protocol adopted by the immigration department. It is grossly unfair for the immigration department to have invited several thousands of our youths to physically present themselves to compete to fill a miserly four thousand vacancies. “Nothing but crass opportunism can explain this heartless scam. A more rational and discerning recruitment process could easily have reduced the numbers by insisting on raising minimum standards. “The immigration department refused to employ this option in order to maximise the opportunity to bleed the applicants, each of whom, was asked to pay N1, 000. “The spectre of over 80,000 youths in a stadium in Abuja, assembled, not to watch an A- list football match, but rather, challenged by an epic hunger to have something to do, must break all hearts.”
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 07:22:43 +0000