According to NIS exercise conducted for immigration recruitment which seems 16 youths lost their life on Saturday 15th March. The executive minister of interior, Abba Moro was deeply saddened about the whole exercise and also accepting the blame of care-less conducted recruitment exercise and addressing it before the Senate Committee on Interior Matters Panel Instituted by the senate, and urge them to conduct an intellectual investigation that let this sorrowful event took place. Mr Moro deliberately sympathize with the dead "as with most administrative exercise, the final results can obviously be determined". He said.
"Mr chairman and distinguished senators, we are deeply grieved and saddened by the way events turned out. We express our sincere regrets once again. However, permit me to state that our patriotic desire was the pursuit of a more honest, a more transparent, a more cost effective, a more efficient and equitable platform. We sincerely made appropriate and adequate preparations for a hitch -free exercise, but as most things in administrative and human conditions, the yield curve of expected outcome is mostly undefined .My heart goes out to the families of those who have lost their dear loved ones. I sincerely sympathize with those injured. I share in their grief. I share in their pains."
May I, at this juncture, assure you, distinguished senators and Nigerians, of my respect for the sanctity of human life. The loss of these young Nigerians, who are needed as a critical human resource factor for nation building is most regrettable. As the Minister of Interior, under whose purview this unfortunate exercise took place, I cannot abdicate my responsibility. The buck stops here.”
