Nigerians collect signatures to sack Abba Moro

No fewer than 20 Nigerians have signed
a petition calling on President Goodluck
Jonathan to sack his Interior Minister,
Comrade Abba Moro, over the death of
16 Nigerians in stampedes at several job
test centres across Nigeria weekend.
"Sixteen Nigerian youths out of 700,000
died in stampede at several cities in
Nigeria on Saturday 15 March, trying to
write a test to qualify for one of the
5,000 vacancies in the Nigerian
Immigration Service, under the
supervision of Abba Moro.
"Mr. Moro must be made to take
responsibility for the shambolic test and
what looks like a job scam advertised by
a department under his watch", said the
online petition with the link: http://
www.ipetitions.com/petition/nigerias-
interior-minister-abba-moro-must-be.
Abba Moro: Interior minister
President Jonathan yesterday summoned
Moro to his office yesterday to discuss
the national tragedy, but calls are
mounting that the president should sack
the minister.
Vice President of the Nigeria Labour
Congress, Isa Aremu, leading protesters
to the NIS office in Kaduna yesterday
called for the resignation of Interior
Minister Abba Moro, who on public
television Monday confirmed that five
women were among the seven dead and
admitted the deaths were the result of
"poor management of crowds".
"The most honourable thing for him is to
resign," Aremu said, to cheers from the
crowd.
Aremu appealed to President Goodluck
Jonathan to demonstrate that no life of
an applicant will further be wasted at
any recruitment centre.
He said, "the president should take
action so as to prevent shameless
exhibition of incompetence and non-
service delivery by some of his
ministers."
"We need a commitment that NIS will
stop this serial killing of Nigerians," he
said.


Culled from: PMNEWS




















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