ALL Progressives Congress, APC, senators have berated the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan over last weekend tragic death of Nigerian youths in search of Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, job.
According to the party, Jonathan’s government had left Nigeria worse than it met the country.
The senators said last Saturday’s tragedy during the Nigerian Immigration Service jobs
tests, which left 17 people dead and many others injured across the country, was a further indication of government’s insensitivity to the plight of Nigerians.
Reacting to the misfortune, in a statement, through their spokesman, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, yesterday, APC senators insisted that “the tragedy had further graphically underlined the insensitivity of the President Jonathan’s administration to the plight of the people.”
They asked the Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, to resign his position, saying it was necessary for the committee set up to investigate the cause of the tragedy to carry out its function without any fear or favour.
”In other countries, the death of these helpless applicants in such a circumstance would be enough for the minister in charge to tender his resignation.
”We are calling on the Minister of the Interior, Abba Moro, to resign his position, because he can’t be absolved from the activities that eventually led to this monumental tragedy,” the senators said.
The APC senators expressed worry over what they called worsening unemployment problem in the country, saying attempts by them to provide constructive opposition had always been muzzled by the PDP dominated senators.
They also called on President Jonathan to tackle Nigeria’s problems, especially unemployment, with sincerity.
”We are very worried about the worsening unemployment rate and are, hereby, calling on President Jonathan to tackle the problem sincerely and decisively by declaring an emergency on the unemployment and urgently come out with a plan to tackle the problem.
” We would be deceiving ourselves not to admit that joblessness is an indirect effect of the spate of insecurity that is bedeviling the country all over.