Unemployed young Nigerians pay N50,000 each for SURE-P jobs – Report By Ezekiel Attah on September 7, 2014 A recent report indicates that over 10,000 unemployed youths may have been made by a government agency to pay N50,000 for jobs yet-to-be offered them. According to the report by Daily Independent, “government agencies have continued to exploit the alarming unemployment situation in the country to defraud hapless Nigerian job seekers.” Inquiry revealed that the applicants for the FERCSARA, a task force created under SURE-P/FERMA programme, have paid over N50,000 each to secure unavailable jobs, which they are yet to be formally offered since November 2013. The recruiters have been collecting money from applicants for uniforms, enrolment forms, medicals and data capturing among others, but none has been supplied. The recruiters might have raked in over N1 billion from 10,000 applicants. It was gathered that applicants are more than 25,000, some of whom got weary after coming for several months. This is as new applicants are recorded almost on daily basis till date. It was learnt that each applicant was made to pay N32,500 for uniforms that were not supplied, while they collected enrolment letter for N2,200 each. Although the letters were said to have been cancelled by one of the top officers, no refund has been made. Also, applicants allegedly paid N2,000 each for SURE-P form, although some paid as much as N10,000 out of desperation to get the form, which was being hoarded. There was also another payment of N1,500 each for data capturing, which was reporetedly done three times with additional fees. The applicants also were made to pay N2,000 each for T-shirts and N1,500 for fez cap. Each applicant also paid N500 for medical fitness and N100 for traffic form. It was gathered that since November last year, the applicants have been coming to the office in Ojota, Lagos, none of them has been given any stipend, even when they were used for some political rallies in the guise of creating awareness for the organisation. The applicants, if offered employment, were said would take over control of all federal roads in Lagos from the Lagos state Traffic Management Agency (LASTMA). Indeed, they have already clashed with the agency officials at Toll Gate around Shagisha on several occasions. Several applicants, said they have not received a kobo as transport allowance since the November recruitment exercise, when they started paying various fees and coming to the office regularly from different parts of the state. “I am tired of paying. In fact, I have spent the little savings I made from menial jobs I have been doing since graduating from the university four years ago. “After the stadium rally, I as well as others, realised we are just being used for political strategy ahead 2015 elections
Posted on: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 12:01:45 +0000
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