Four unemployed youth have asked a Federal High Court sitting in
Abuja to compel the Federal Government to pay them N10 million as general
damages for failing to provide them with jobs.
They include Patience Omezie, Kasim
Suleiman, Okojie Arabamen and Godwin Morka.
The plaintiffs, in a suit filed on their
behalf by Chief Jubril Okutekpa (SAN), told the court that they were among
Nigerian youths who were exposed to serious harm in the botched recruitment
conducted by the Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS.
A total of 19 applicants, including a
pregnant woman, reportedly lost their lives at various centres across the
federation where the exercise took place.
Consequently, the plaintiffs, aside from
praying for damages against the Federal Government, also urged the court to
sack the Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro, under whose supervision the NIS
tragedy occurred…
Justice Abdul Kafarati, yesterday,
okayed the suit for hearing on December 1.
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