Following the outrage that continued to trail the death of 15 job applicants including a pregnant women at the various centres across the country during the recruitment exercise by the Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday issued a query to the Minister of Interior, Comrade Abba Moro to explain within 24 hours the poor handling of the exercise even as he rejected calls for him to resign over the incident saying “I will not resign”.
One of the survivors of the stampede at the Minna centre, has also recounted her experience
just as the Nigerian Labour Congress staged a protest in Kaduna asking the government to probe the incident.
The Interior Minister, Abba Moro and the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Immigration Service Davis Parradang were yesterday summoned to the presidential villa by President Goodluck Jonathan
The Interior minister who was dressed in white Caftan, appeared disturbed after emerging from the President’s office in company of the immigration boss. He had earlier met with the Chief of Staff to the President, Jones Arogbofa, where they spent over an hour before meeting the President.
When the trio emerged from the President’s office, Moro and Parradang refused to be interviewed by State House Correspondents.
Sources at the Villa said President Jonathan who was worried by the Saturday’s incidence had queried the interior minister to explain within 24 hours the poor handling of the exercise as witnessed across the country.
President Jonathan while inaugurating the National Conference which kicked off yesterday in Abuja lamented the death of young applicants and asked for one minutes of silence in honour of those who died.
President Jonathan said, “just as we were preparing for this confab, a tragic incident happened on Saturday; I don’t want to bore you with details, but we are investigating the incident. Let us observe a minute silence for them.”