No FG Directive to Return Applicants' Money — Immigration
The Federal Government may not refund the N1,000 application fee that was paid by each of the 693,000 applicants that participated in the Nigerian Immigration Service recruitment on March 15.
The FG had on Wednesday cancelled the recruitment exercise, which claimed 18 applicants' lives.
The Public Relations Officer of the NIS, Mr. Emeka Obua, told newsmen on Saturday that the service had not received any directive on the refund of the money.
He said such a directive would come from the Federal Government to the Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro.
Also, the Ministry of Interior said no directive had been given to it from any quarters to refund the money to applicants.
The Special Assistant to the Minister on Media, Mr. George Ubong, in a telephone interview with one of our correspondents, said no such directive had been received in the ministry.
"We have not received any directive to refund any money," he stated.
Ubong also said the contracting firm, which handled the exercise, had been registered with the Ministry of Interior as a contractor long before the appointment of Moro as minister.
He stated, "The man has been a contractor with the ministry of interior before the advent of the minister. The minister doesn't know him."
No FG Directive to Return Applicants' Money — Immigration.
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