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Nigeria: Employment Racketeering Rocks Delta Immigration Service
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Vanguard (Lagos)
15 May 2008
Posted to the web 15 May 2008
Austin Ogwuda
Lagos
THE on-going recruitment exercise being conducted by the Delta state command of the Nigeria Immigration Service Asaba has been characterised with large scale racketing allegedly being perpetuated by some officials of the command, investigation has shown.
The command located near the Asaba bridge Head for the past two weeks is besieged daily by anxious applicants seeking recruitment.
However, investigation has shown that the slots appropriated for Delta state indigenes were being 'sold' to other applicants from neighbouring Anambra state at exorbitant cost without recourse to the fate of Delta indigenes seeking the positions.
One worrisome aspect of the whole scam is that other non-Delta indigenes falsely swear to affidavits claiming to be indigenes of Delta state.
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Vanguard gathered that security operatives are already closing in on the perptrators with a view to arresting and pressing charges.
A Deltan, who gave her name simply as Philomena stormed Vanguard office in Asaba yesterday saying "I came all the way from Warri for this exercise. I have been coming here for the past four days but what do you find instead of getting attention other applicants from Anambra and Easter parts buy up our (Delta) chances".
Also, a security operative who pleaded anonymity confided to our reporter that most of the state of origin declaration obtained from the local government councils were falsified. Efforts to get official reaction from the command were unsuccessful as at the time of this report as bot phone calls and text messages put to the Public Relations Officer of the command were not replied.
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