Following allegations of skewed recruitment in favour of applicants
from certain section of the country and non-advertisement of its
recruitment process, the Minister of Interior, Comrade Abba Moro has
directed the immediate cancellation of the ongoing recruitment exercise
into the Nigeria Immigration Service.
MRS ROSE C. UZOMA ALLEGEDLY ENMESHED IN RECRUITMENT SCANDAL AT THE NIS
In a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media, George Udoh,
the Minister stated that “following apparent controversy trailing the
ongoing recruitment exercise in Nigeria Immigration Service the
responsible thing to do is to cancel the exercise until a more
transparent, acceptable and efficable platform is established to enlist
qualified Nigerians into the service.”
Comrade Moro directed further that all appointment letters issued
and documentation carried out stand cancelled until the Civil Defence
immigration and Prisons Service board, meet to consider the waiver
granted the Nigeria Immigration Service to recruit men and women into
the service.
It would be recalled that the Controller General of the Nigeria
Immigration Service, Mrs Rosemary Chinyere Uzoma, who has just three
months to the expiration of her tenure, while defending the secret
recruitment exercise into the service at the insistence of the House of
Representatives Committee on Federal Character, said, the decision was
taken so as not to unknowingly recruit terrorists into the highly
sensitive organization.