Minister of Interior, Patrick Abba Moro, and Comptroller General of Immigration, David Parradang have been asked to resign by different public stakeholders for how they handled the sad event where 16 people had lost their lives at the screening due to inadequate planning of the exercise on March 15.
The Secretary of the Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration and Prisons Services board, S. D. Tapgun, told the committee that about 710,000 people applied for the test according to the numbers provided by the consultant, Drexel Limited.
Tapgun also revealed that funding was a major issue for the exercise, and they had estimated it will cost around N201 million but Drexel limited produced only N45 million despite making N710 million.
Mr Tapgun said that the reason Mr. Moro rejected suggestions that the exercise be staggered and conducted separately based on cadres was due to funding.
Lawmakers later then insinuated that the ministry had lost control over a firm it claimed to have hired. Meanwhile Minister Moro also attended todays hearing.
The Comptroller-General, Mr. Parradang meanwhile said he didn't know anything regarding the planning for the exercise and said his advices where rejected.
Mr. Parradang said he was shocked when the planners decided to take over the recruitment of both the senior and junior cadre unlike the old methods where the supervising board takes charge of this recruitment.
He said: The minister, Mr. Moro, is the chairman of the board. “For all my years in the service, no one had ever taken away from us the right to recruit the Cadre B officials.
And that was why I protested very vehemently,” Mr. Parradang said
