By Emman Ovuakporie and Johnbosco Agbakwuru

ABUJA- REASONS why the Federal Government banned payment for recruitment forms were on Tuesday, revealed by Director for Legal Services and Prosecution, the Federal Character Commission, FCC, Oluwatosin Bodunde.

Adeshidaa Bodunde said that government proscribed any kind of payment for forms for civil service jobs, following the March 2014 Nigerian Immigration Service ,NIS, recruitment tragedy.

She disclosed this at a one-day public hearing on two resolutions of the
House of Representatives entitled: Extortion of Unemployment Seekers by Government Agencies- Recruitment Firms and Call for State of Emergency and Legislative Intervention on the Employment Crisis in Nigeria. The public hearing was conducted by the Ezenwa Onyewuchi led House Committee on Labour, Employment and Productivity.

She explained that aside from the military and the police which were given waivers due to the peculiarity of their recruitment process, the FCC had ensured that it’s August 2014 circular banning the payment for forms or scratch cards by applicants was full enforced in Ministries Departments and Agencies (MDAs). Also speaking at the hearing, representative of the Federal Civil Service ,FCC, Clement Assam said the commission had put in place institutional mechanisms to protect applicants from extortion. He however admitted that only a fraction of unemployed graduates can be absolved into the civil service.

In his welcome address, Onyewuchi defined unemployment to be both a social and economic problem. He noted that unemployment reduces the purchasing power of the citizens which in turn results to consequent issues including low consumption owing to lower rates of production, which ultimately hinders government’s the push for economic growth.

Earlier, Speaker Yakubu Dogara while declaring the hearing open described as highly unacceptable the fact that the unemployment rate is growing by at least 16 percent each year, with as many as 50 percent of the eligible youth said to be either unemployed or underemployed. The Speaker who was represented by Deputy Minority Whip, Binta Bello, posited that poverty and unemployment are key contributors to the rise in crime and insurgency.

He stated that the House was committed to collaborating with the Executive, the organized private sector and other critical partners to ensure success in the renewed drive of the federal government to create jobs.

: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/04/immigration-tragedy-fg-banned-payment-recruitment-forms/

that is a welcome development but im not convinced until it is practically done. in nigeria one major thing we do is to talk talk nd talk without actualization or they will come out with another technical way or technique of extorting money from the job seekers................................................ FTC[b][/b]FTC

We don hear

Kudos to the govt. Job seekers shouldn't be exploited. That was d most painful part of that immigration tragedy. Yet the minister Abba Moro wasn't even suspended after wrongfully extorting job seekers.

That's very good development

We don hear.
Make that scammer called Abba Moro just refund the money he collected from innocent job seekers.

same old story

Where are we heading to Which way naija

Fct

we dey observe

We dey observe

what Nigeria need is change. but change can be negative or positive if want change a trip to China should stop now or Nigeria will see hell.

Good move.

not too bad...
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No ministry or department should be exempted, It is baffles me how you are expected to pay someone for work for him. And its absolutely heartbreaking when the employer is someone who ought to give you job. FG demanding payment in any guise for employment is in bad taste. Police and military should not be exempted. In fact, due to the percularity of thier job, they should be the ones seeking for innocent and patrotic citizens to employ.

Nice,hope this directive will be followed by the agencies.

In Germany
The government pay you for joining any force
From the day you where admitted till you die

who dem epp before? ama still an undergraduate

Good na check www.tipsdome.com/category/jobs for the latest vacancies

good one


This government ehn?

Today they surprise me, tomorrow they will disappoint me

PMB which way naa

Not just stop payment for applications, also stop allocating slots to people who now in turn sell them to the highest bidder

FG scamming it's citizens since 16AD

kelechiodo:
No ministry or department should be exempted, It is baffles me how you are expected to pay someone for work for him. And its absolutely heartbreaking when the employer is someone who ought to give you job. FG demanding payment in any guise for employment is in bad taste. Police and military should not be exempted. In fact, due to the percularity of thier job, they should be the ones seeking for innocent and patrotic citizens to employ.

Their Forms are currently available and they're free,any interested person should just go to their website and apply,change is really here,slowly and steady we'll get there.