NIS Tragedy: PENGASSAN Seeks Consultant’s Arrest, CG’s Sack

Proposed Secretariat Complex for Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Port Harcourt, Rivers State

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria has called for the immediate arrest and prosecution of the consultant that handled last Saturday’s recruitment exercise that led to the death of about 21 applicants in Abuja and across the nation for jettisoning recruitment procedures as laid down in the civil service rules.
PENGASSAN, which is a trade union of all senior staff in the oil and gas industry, also asked the Federal Government to, without delay, sack the Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Immigration Service, David Parradang, and other senior officers of the paramilitary agency, who were involved in the exercise.
In a statement issued by the union, the PENGASSAN President, Comrade Babatunde Ogun, who condemned the recruitment procedure that led to the death of the applicants, demanded that the Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, should also step aside pending the end of a probe to be instituted by the government to determine the culpability of the minister and its officers in the fatal recruitment exercise.
Ogun criticised the collection of the N1,000 application fee from each of the applicants, adding that this fuelled the abandonment of civil service recruitment procedures by the consultant.