President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered total cancellation of Saturday’s messy recruitment exercise of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS).

The president also gave automatic employment to injured applicants and 3 relations of each of the applicants who lost their lives.

The Information Minister Labaran Maku who disclosed this to State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting  Wednesday said the council devoted the meeting to express grief over the death of applicants who lost their lives to stampedes during the exercise.

Maku said the council regretted the incident and expressed condolences to the families of the victims and sympathised with the injured.

According to him, the president announced automatic employment for three relations of each of the victims, with one beneficiary to be a female.

The minister added that Jonathan also directed that automatic employment be given to all the applicants who sustained injuries during the exercise.

He said the president ordered a fresh recruitment exercise into the NIS.

The new exercise, whose date he said would be announced later, would be conducted by a committee chaired by the chairman of the Federal Civil Service Commission.

Other members of the committee, according to him, are the Comptroller-General of NIS, representatives of the Inspector-General of Police, representatives of the Commandant General of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, representatives of the Director General of the State Security Service, representatives of the Nigeria Prisons Service and representatives of the Federal Road Safety Corps.

The minister however declined to comment on whether the N1,000 paid by thousands of applicants will be refunded.

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