The APC has accused president Goodluck Jonathan of playing politics with
his recent move to compensate the bereaved families of the Immigration
recruitment tragedy, noting he ignored them for one year.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has faulted President Goodluck Jonathan’s
move of giving N5 million each to the families that lost their
relatives in the Immigration recruitment exercise in March 2014, saying
it’s political.
The party said the gesture, which is coming one year after, is aimed at currying votes for the forthcoming elections.
The National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,
noted this in a statement in Lagos on Saturday, March 14. He queried
that it took the president one year to fulfil the promise he had made to
the affected families.
‘The truth is that this
President was forced to act because of the elections. Otherwise, why has
it taken one year for the President to redeem his promise to the
bereaved families? Why has his Administration not sanctioned those who
sent innocent job seekers to their early graves after extorting them?
Why is the Interior Minister, Mr Abba Moro, who presided over the deaths, still in office, virtually dancing on the graves of those innocent youths?
‘Sunday,
March 15th, will mark one year since those vibrant youths were lured to
their deaths by a callous federal government that failed them in all
ramifications, including the security of their lives and the assurance
of their welfare, the raison d’etre of any government. It is therefore
utterly reprehensible, immoral and wicked for the same administration to
seek to make political gains out of the needless tragedy,’ the
statement said.
President Goodluck Jonathan on
Friday, March 13, gave N75m and 35 jobs offer to 15 families who lost
their loved ones in the tragedy.
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