A year after pledging jobs to
families who lost loved ones during a deadly recruitment by the Nigeria
Immigration, President Goodluck Jonathan finally, handed out money and
appointment letters to the beneficiaries.
Mr. Jonathan gave N75 million
(N5million to each family) as well as employment letters to families of those
who died in the botched exercise.
Fifteen applicants lost their lives
in multiple stampedes across job recruitment venues across the country, as
hundreds of thousands thronged the stadia used as examination venues, to vie
for the jobs.
Each of the families of the deceased
was handed a cheque of N5million naira each, while three family members were
given employment letters.
Speaking shortly after, Mr. Jonathan
said the incident will never repeat itself, “I promise this country that such
will not happen again. This will be the last of such things,” he said. Mr.
Jonathan said the money given to the families of the deceased should not be
seen as compensation because it cannot replace the lives lost.
As usual this noble feat by the
president which has proven that his a promise keeper and a man who is worth his
word has become an issue of unsavoury propaganda by his detractors and never
say gooders.
The declaration to compensate the
families of the victims of this unfortunate incident was made about a year ago,
a period long enough to be forgotten by the nation and even the one who made
such declaration, as is the promise by subsequent governments to declare and
not fulfil but only politicise issue to gain public acceptance.
President Goodluck Jonathan has not
only shown the people that his government is one that fulfils promises but he
has done more to the people’s orientation, it has gone a long way to reassure
the people about what governance and the ideals of governance should be.
The fulfilment of a year old
government declaration is not just a hope booster for the beneficiaries of this
gesture but also an assurance for the whole nation to see governance for what
it ought to be. The complexity of the Nigerian political setup has however
thrown up unwarranted propaganda by some political jobbers and opportunists who
have without conscious tried to politicise this noble gesture as a medium to
score cheap political points.
Detractors of this commendable
effort fail to see the morality in the spirit of forgiveness and even the
spirit following the compensation and its import in building nationalism and
state consciousness, the effort which inadvertently reminds the citizenry
of the covenant between the state and the people.
Why is the issue not the action and
motive behind the general recruitment? The opposition has trivialise this epoch
action to an opportunity to demonise a well-meaning Nigerian, one whose
effort to uplift the Nigerian unemployed from the abyss of penury and
joblessness by creating job opportunities.
Why has the unfortunate disaster which was borne out of an honest attempt to better the lot of Nigerian youth become the yardstick to measure the performance of Comrade Abba Moro, who has proven to be above board in his exceptional performance at the ministry of interior?
Why has the unfortunate disaster which was borne out of an honest attempt to better the lot of Nigerian youth become the yardstick to measure the performance of Comrade Abba Moro, who has proven to be above board in his exceptional performance at the ministry of interior?
Why has the opposition not mentioned
the upgrade in our prisons? The state of our borders? The successes recorded by
the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC), in curbing vandalism?
Politics should not be the bastion of all activity even in a political
dispensation. Let us all view government action on the basis of what such
actions it set out to achieve. Should the recruitment exercise have
employed the number it intended, would these same harbingers of falsehood have
accorded the same level of commendation as it has drawn their ire and
condemnation?
It has become a tradition for the
opposition to criticise all and every government decision not minding its
import or value. The opposition have adopted a stance of infallibility when
traducers are these accusers themselves, like the bible incident let those
without sin cast the first stone.
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