During the recent recruitment for officers for the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Minister of the Interior Rauf Aregbesola revealed that 1.5 million people applied for 5,000 posts (NSCDC).
The minister stated this at a policy dialogue hosted by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission on Tuesday (ICPC).
In January 2022, the NSCDC had a shortlist of 5,000 people for its final recruitment list.
Aregbesola said the agency made sure the recruitment process was fair and transparent, as well as the obstacles they faced.
“For the NSCDC, about 1.5 million applications were registered on the website. Those who met the requirements on age and height were about 750,000 and were asked to upload their certificates,” he said.
“A total of 217,000 applicants uploaded their certificates of which 113,000 were shortlisted to write the CBT but only 53,116 eventually sat for the test. It is from these that 5,000 were picked among the successful ones.
“It is a long and tortuous process. It is also a novelty. So, we expect a lot of pressure. Some of the pressures are understandable. A woman came with her son after getting very high-up people to influence his appointment. But we discovered that the son was far, far below the required height of 1.7 meters.
“Some applicants on wheelchairs also came, demanding the statutory five percent allocation for special people. We politely explained to them that the job is paramilitary, requiring strenuous physical exercise for which they are not eligible, given their physical condition.
“One of the lessons we learned, which we have always known anyway, is that there is no part of this country where we cannot get merit if we want the best. We got people from all parts of the country who are qualified, including females, as certified by the federal character commission that was part of the process from the beginning to the end.
“But I must say that Nigerians are reasonable people. Once they see the honesty and transparency of our efforts, the pressures begin to abate.”
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