Only 1,112 candidates would be recruited to bring the total number to 2000 as approved in the last aborted recruitment exercise. 888 candidates, who initially applied at the first botched exercise, had already been taken under the Buhari administration. Priority would be given to individuals who speak
foreign languages such as French, Chinese and Arabic.
Though over 40,000 candidates have applied to be recruited into the Nigerian Immigration Service, only 1,112 candidates can be accommodated into the service, the federal government disclosed. This is based on the approval given by President Muhammadu Buhari, reports say, The disclosure was made by the minister of interior, Lt.Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (retd.), in Abuja on Monday June 19.
Lt.Gen. Dambazau made his comments while fielding questions from journalists shortly after the presentation of the handbook on the operations of the Presidential Executive Order at the Nigeria Immigration Service {NIS} headquarters. The minister stated that the recent NIS advertisement was in order to recruit the balance of 1,112 candidates to make it to 2000 as approved in the last aborted recruitment exercise.
Dambazau said: “There were two aborted Immigration recruitment's that were done. The first one led to fatality and casualties. The second one was dispersed following discovery of so many abnormalities which 2,000 of them were sent home. “When we came in November 2015, we looked at the whole thing and we discovered for the second one that it was not all the fault of the candidates as such, but it was the process that was followed. “So we wrote a memo to Mr. president that we should recall those candidates, 2000 of them, so that we can reassess them and the President graciously approved that and we advertised in papers and I think about 1,500 or so reported and out of this number 888 qualified for that recruitment's.
“Now the balance of 1, 112 is what we are working on now, that is the reason for the recent advertisement by the Nigerian Immigration Service to recruit that balance of 1,112 and this is the process we are in now.” Dambazau gave the assurance however that there would be transparency and fairness in the recruitment process. Also present at the event, the comptroller-general of the NIS Muhammed Babandede, said his administration would give priority to competency of the.
“We are going to recruit young officers with priority of those who speak foreign languages such as French, Chinese, Arabic with priority to those who have ICT skills.'' He added.
Recap that a similar exercise under Jonathan administration led to the death of some applicants.
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