Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro
Minister
of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro, on Monday described those faulting the
decision of the Nigeria Immigration Service to charge each job applicant
N1,000 as lacking in understanding of the service’s workings.
The minister who spoke with State House correspondents described the criticisms as “misplaced and misguided.”
He said his ministry was fair to the
applicants because some other agencies charge as much as N2,000 to
access their recruitment portals unlike that of the NIS that charges
only N1, 000.
Moro added that the ministry followed
due process by consulting with the Federal Character Commission and
other government agencies that were engaged in similar exercises before
arriving at the cost.
He said, “Maybe for the umpteenth time, I
will let you know that some of these criticisms are misplaced,
misguided and borne out of misinformation and clear lack of
understanding of the situation in the Nigerian Immigration Service.
“I have promised Nigerians that in the
face of the controversy that trailed the last immigration exercise of
recruitment that we are going to enthrone a more transparent and cost
effective system. This is what we have done.
“What we have done has passed through
the processes that are required to engage an external consultant in
processing the applications of these intending recruits and of course
you know that from time on a monthly basis the Nigerian Police, the
Nigerian Air Force, the Nigerian Navy have been engaged in this
e-recruitment portal and I don’t see anything that is exceptional in the
situation in the Nigerian Immigration Service.
“I want Nigerians to know that today
the Army recruits, the Air Force recruits, the Navy recruits, the Police
recruits, virtually on a monthly basis and they charge token amount of
money for portals.
“I want Nigerians also to crosscheck the
amount of money that is paid by other agencies to access these portals
which is a minimum of N2, 000.”
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