Members of a youth organisation, Benue Grassroots Coalition, BGC, have condoled with the families and friends of those who lost their lives during a recruitment exercise that was conducted by the National Immigration Service, NIS Saturday last week.
The condolence was contained in a statement jointly issued yesterday by the Coalition’s President and Secretary, Engr. Joseph Aaron Ebiega and Clement Abah Adikwu, respectively.
“No doubt, it is a tragedy, not only for these families and friends, but for the nation as a whole,” they said.
Continuing, the statement said: “However, it is unfortunate that an exercise aimed at ensuring more transparency in a recruitment process for a public institution inadvertently turned fatal.
“While we mourn the deaths of the job seekers with the rest of Nigerians, we cannot see how the actualisation of the calls for the removal of the Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, would compensate for the irreparable losses.
“A more productive move, we believe, would be to demand that the government make earnest efforts to ensure that the families of the deceased are eased of their pains, through compensation.”
The concerned youth said the government had already demonstrated “willingness or ingenuity on this matter,” noting that it had pledged to allocate three automatic vacancies for the victims’ families.
“While not holding brief for the minister, it is implausible that he would have foreseen the incident from the beginning.”
They thus pleaded with members of the public to let off retribution, “knowing that the tragedy wouldn’t have been conceived” and that “nobody is beyond error”.
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