Angry youths protest over the the death of 16 NIS job seekers

The recruitment examination of Nigeria Immigrations Service is
one that everybody will be talking about for a while due to the
alarming number of people who turned up for it.
Apparently, the rowdiness of the exercise wasn’t felt in the
examination centers alone, as the frustration of the applicants was
extended to the roads of Lagos.
Some of the youths at the Lagos Centre of the immigration
recruitment examination held yesterday in Lagos went on the rampage
shortly after the examination, causing heavy traffic congestion on
Western Avenue, Ikorodu road and other nooks and crannies of
Lagos.
The applicants reportedly seized all roads leading to the National
Stadium venue of the test in protest, shortly after they were told it has
been postponed. The young job seekers asked that their N1000
processing fee be returned to them, hence they won’t be returning back
home any time soon. The protest took place for several hours with the
candidates chanting anti- government songs and blocking major roads.
According to reports, at least 100, 000 job seekers came out for the
screening test which was supposed to hold at the 45,000-capacity
National Stadium.
Meanwhile, some people have called on the Minister of Interior, Mr.
Abba Moro that the N1000 processing fee was uncalled for, and with
about 6,000,000 candidates they will be making N6,000,000,000. But
the minister explained that the N1,000 was charged by the consulting
firm to defray cost of accessing the website to fill forms.
The confusion started very early in the morning, when the candidates
were seen in thousands loitering around the Teslim Balogun Stadium
and the National Stadium in Surulere.
Majority of them were sitting on bare floor under the bridge and
causing heavy traffic obstructions even with the intervention of police
and road traffic officials team on duties.
The situation worsened after some of them had finished their exams.
The youth trooped to the top of the bridges. One of the candidates said
their annoyance was the shoddy arrangement for the examination.
They caused huge traffic congestion, leading commuters to wait
endlessly for public transport. The few commercial buses available
jerked up their fares to different destinations.
A woman in her forties said she had been waiting at Mushin Bus stop
for several hours before deciding to trek to Masha-kilo in Surulere.
Another woman said, “we are suffering and because of immigration
exams. I’m sure these candidates are just writing the exams for the
fun of it because how many of them will really get employed.”

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