Aisha Yesufu, a co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls advocacy group led protesters to the office of the secretary to the government of the federation to demand the immediate reinstatement of 2000 recruits of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) who were 'illegally dismissed.'
The federal government
had said it would conduct screening for the 2000 "applicants" before
their re-absorption into the Nigerian Immigration Service.
However,
the group argued that members had followed all laid down rules and were
offered appointment letters adding that the new guideline would deny
some of them the job.
"These young men and women are not applicants for enrollment into NIS," Yesufu said.
"They
are the best 2000 recruited from among over 1 million applicants
following laid down procedures which included open publications in the
media for interested applicants. Where in the world are people
issued
employment letters referred to as applicants?"
"This
screening for re-absorption therefore, cannot be regarded as their
entry point as applicants, or an exercise for re-validating applicants. A
person who has received training, has been documented, issued a service
number, and so on is no longer an applicant but an employee/recruit of
the NIS. It is even worse to claim that their letters of employment were
irregularly issued.
"Instead of doing the right
thing to reabsorb them as mandated by the House of Representatives in
their resolution of 12th April 2016, only yesterday the 15th of August
2016, new stringent and needless criteria purportedly approved by the
Nigeria Immigration Service; and the Civil Defence, Fire Service,
Immigration, and Prisons Service Board (CDFSIP), for re-absorption of
#NigeriaImmigration2000 appeared in the national dailies," she added.
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