Immigration Recruitment Tragedy: Applicants Sue Moro, Parradang, Others.

Four persons, acting for themselves and as representatives of the applicants to Nigeria Immigration Service 2014 recruitment exercise, have dragged the federal government, minister of interior Abba Moro, NIS comptroller-general David Parradang and others before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja over last Saturday’s recruitment exercise.

They are seeking an order declaring that the conduct or the execution of the recruitment exercise was illegal, unwarranted,and in violation of the applicants’ fundamental rights to life.

The plaintiffs, who filed the suit at the registry of the court, brought the application under sections 33,34, and 44 of the 1999 Constitition (as amended) and the equivalent articles of the African Charter on Human and People’s Right Act.

The plantiffs also named the attorney-general of the federation and minister of justice, minister of interior and the Nigeria Immigration Service as co-defendants to the suit.

The applicants — Charles Ugwuonye, Friday Danlami, Chinedu Onwuka and Samson Ojo — through their counsel Emeka Ugwuonye had, among other things, asked the court to declare the recruitment exercise illegal and restrain the NIS from spending the money realized from it.

They also want the court to order the respondents to refund the recruitment money back to the applicants, pay the sum of N1m to each applicant and N50m to the families of deceased applicants as general damages.

They also want the court to declare that the conduct or the execution of the recruitment exercise illegal, unwarranted, in violation of the applicants’ fundamental rights to life, right to protection from inhuman and degrading treatment, right to dignity of the human person, right against discrimination on the basis of the circumstances of birth and right against unlawful taking of the property of a person; under Sections 33, 34, 42 and 44 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, (as amended), and the equivalent Articles of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights Act.

No date has been fixed for the hearing od the matter.

Source Leadership.