Ministry denies charging fees for recruitment


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The Ministry of Interior on Tuesday denied charging fees from applicants seeking work at the Nigeria Immigration Service.


Mrs Fatima Bamidele, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Interior, said in a statement that the ministry did not collect N1,000 as processing fee from applicants.

According to the statement, Bamidele denied the allegation when she received representatives of the Nigerian Unemployed Youths Vanguard led by its national coordinator, Mr Solomon Adodo.

"For the avoidance of doubt, the Ministry of Interior and the Nigeria Immigration Service do not charge and will not accept money for jobs.

"Anybody who demands for and accepts money or bribes for jobs in the ministry will be appropriately sanctioned in line with extant regulations guiding discipline in the service," she said.

The permanent secretary said that the current recruitment was in continuation of an earlier effort by the ministry to recruit officers into the Nigeria Immigration Service.

She further explained that the exercise that was done manually was marred with controversy and had to be discontinued.

"Consequently, a new ICT based recruitment exercise had to be adopted for the purpose of fairness, transparency and accountability in line with the transformation agenda of the government.

"A consultant was engaged to provide an Internet platform to enable applicants access the application forms that will enable the ministry process the applications," she said.

She said the consultant was authorised to charge a maximum processing fee of N1,000 per applicant to cover the cost of a scratch card to gain access to the site.

"This is intended to save the applicants the cost of travelling to Abuja to submit their applications, as well as avoid other inherent risks including unauthorised middlemen activities and other abuses.

"It is also against the backdrop of an earlier exercise where everyone converged on a common place resulting in a stampede and loss of some lives," Bamidele said.

Earlier, the leader of the group called for a stop to the collection of the N1,000 being charged for completing the online application forms.

Adodo also said money collected from job seekers should be refunded.

The group also urged the ministry to ensure that the on-going recruitment exercise is conducted in a fair and unprejudiced manner.

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Charging 1k for scratch card,why dat?is still d same tin as charging money for empolyment..y can't applicant fill d form on net and summit tru' dia portal free of charge?weda charging indirectly or directly,charging is charging.

which scratch card?

hmmmmmm

hmmmm wetin concern me, i don pay the yeye 1k nah, e no pain me, it's better than travelling down to ABj and spending money within the Ballpark of say 10k intoto

Donalð Genes: hmmmm wetin concern me, i don pay the yeye 1k nah, e no pain me, it's better than travelling down to ABj and spending money within the Ballpark of say 10k intoto

I never pay, i still dey wait them. I go still pay sha if nothing happens before the deadline.

Ok no wahala, so how dem go take refund our 1k na? Me don pay 2k for me n my sis o!

Sincerely I doubt if that 1000NGN will be refunded. Rather they will come up with another reason for candidates not to collect back their money. Though, for now some Banks such as Ecobank, Diamond and UBA have stopped receiving the money. They claim the officers in charge of the collections are not on seat. Let us keep our ears to the ground for the next move of the authorities involved.