Politics How Outsourcing of Immigration’s Recruitment Led to Applicants’ Deaths - ThisDay

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But for the outsourcing of the recruitment exercise for the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) by the Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro, to a private company, Drexel Nigeria Limited, Saturday's stampede that led to the death of over 16 applicants could have been avoided, THISDAY has learnt.

A top government official confided in THISDAY yesterday that because the NIS was not directly involved in the exercise, it was difficult for it to liaise with relevant government agencies such as the police and the civil defence corps that would have helped in crowd control and provide medical services in the event of an emergency.

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) also bickered over the incident as the two parties took different positions on the tragedy, with the opposition party calling on Moro to resign.

No surprises here then. What an absolute tragedy.