NIS Tragic Exercise: Rivers APC Wants Minister’s Sack

The All Progressives Con
gress (APC), Rivers State Chapter, has said called on President Goodluck Jonathan to sack the Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro, for supervising last Saturday’s tragic death of about 20 Nigerian unemployed youth, who participated in the recruitment exercise of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS).
In a statement in Port Harcourt, yesterday, the APC said that the minister has no reason to remain in office a day longer after supervising the tragic nationwide recruitment stampede that occurred at some of the test centres across the country.
The party, in a statement issued by the State Interim Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, regretted that “rather than demonstrate sincere sorrow over the avoidable death of our youths, Interior Affairs Minister, Abba Moro, had the effrontery to blame the victims for the cruel fate that befell them.”
“Our attention has been drawn to media reports in which Mr. Abba Moro claimed that the applicants lost their lives due to impatience and for not following the laid-down procedures spelt out to them before the exercise. This is the height of insensitivity by a Minister who by now should have handed over his resignation letter for poorly managing a recruitment exercise that turned the venues into the graveyard of innocent youths,” APC Rivers said.
The party advised President Goodluck Jonathan “to without delay relieve Abba Moro of his appointment as he has showed that he is not fit to continue in that capacity.”
APC Rivers berated the Federal Government “for creating the monster of unemployment which has culminated in the avoidable death of our future stars.”
It commiserated with the families of the bereaved and wished those injured speedy recovery.
“To reduce the anguish of the victims, the Federal Government should foot the bill for the treatment of all those injured during the tragic exercise. It should, in addition, bear the cost of the burial of the dead and pay the families, at least, two years salaries,” APC Rivers said.
“It is very unfortunate and sad that the present administration at the centre lacks what it takes to govern a nation like Nigeria as it is overwhelmed by the issues of governance”, the APC said.