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Lawmakers order NIS to employ families of immigration tragedy victims

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The lower chamber of the National Assembly has mandated the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) to give the 176 candidates involved in the immigration job disaster automatic employment.

The lawmakers also directed that 48 family members of the deceased be immediately deployed and their salaries effected.

The lawmakers noted that it was the power tussle between the Presidential Committee set up by former President Goodluck Jonathan and the Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration and Prisons Board over the appointment that was responsible for negating the presidential directives.

The action of the lawmakers followed a petition by one of the victims over the disregard for the presidential directives on the appointment.

While adopting the Femi Gbajabiamila – led three man panel that carried out the investigation yesterday, the lawmakers also directed that others that were injured but excluded by the report of the Department of Security Services (DSS) should also be immediately given letters of appointment after due diligence carried out on their claims.

Besides, the lawmakers regretted that the Presidential Committee veered out of its mandates by embarking on illegal recruitment while adopting the report at the Committee of the Whole House, chaired by the Deputy Speaker, Yussuff Lasun.

The investigation panel however found out that the Presidential Committee appeared to have breached the terms of reference when it “Suo moto and without recourse to the Board embarked on another recruitment exercise.”

It would be recalled that the immigration job tragedy made former President Goodluck Jonathan set up a Presidential committee to monitor the NIS recruitment exercise, specifically to ensure that three family members of each deceased applicants and all those injured during the aborted exercise were given immediate and automatic employment in the NIS.

The Presidential Committee was chaired by the Chairman of the Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC).

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