Monday, February 2, 2015

Buhari Accuses Jonathan Of Neglecting Immigration Stampede Victims

Gen. Muhammadu Buhari the presidential candidate of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday accused President
Jonathan of abandoning the victims of immigration job scandals
and refusing to punish the government officials involved, six
months after the incident that killed dozens and injured others.
According to Daily Trust, Buhari said it was regrettable that
almost six months after millions of job applicants assembled at
stadiums across the country for enlistment at the immigration
which led to a stampede and deaths, the federal government is
yet to bring the culprits to book or provide succor to the victims.
In a statement by Malam Garba Shehu Buhari’s campaign media
and publicity director, he said it is worrisome that the Minister of
Interior, Abba Moro under whose watch thousands of Nigerian
youth were compelled to pay N1000 for the job application, and
which proceeds run into hundreds of millions of Naira, is busy
campaigning for PDP and President Jonathan’s re-election,
whereas the applicants who lost their lives have been forgotten,
and their parents and relations left to bemoan their fate.
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To Abba Moro’s Apology
The statement noted that it is shocking that despite the uproar
which the scandal generated across the country and beyond,
neither the Nigeria Immigration Service, Ministry of Interior or
the Federal Government has given any satisfactory answer to
the posers as to why thousands of Nigerian youth were
assembled in major cities for few job vacancies which have
already been allocated to children of powerful people in
government.
It would be recalled that on March 15, 2014, a poorly organised
recruitment exercise claimed the lives of no fewer than 20
applicants following a stamped that occurred at the venue of the
exercise across the country.

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