Economy

FG Special Public Works: Applicants in Ibadan Protest Lack of Access to Form

By Web News 1376

As the two-day recruitment process initiated by the Federal Government comes to an end today, prospective applicants who could not obtain the form have lamented their inability to do so.

Our correspondent, who monitored the exercise in some local governments where the recruitment forms were to be collected, reported that youths and married women arrived early and waited all day without getting the form.

At Akinyele, Ibadan North and Ibadan Southwest Local Government, the prospective applicants who were frustrated told Radio Nigeria that the process was allegedly taken over by politicians

The scenario took another dimension at Ibadan Northwest Local Government, Onireke, as aggrieved youth who could not obtain the form embarked on protest to Radio Nigeria to register their grievances

They appealed to government to review the scheme so as to exclude them in the recruitment programme.

Rotimi Famakin/Taiwo Akinola

Economy

FG Special Public Works: Rowdy Scenes as Candidates Struggle to Obtain Form

By Web News 899

It was a survival of the fittest as youths and the elderly stormed local government secretariat where the recruitment process for one thousand people initiated by the Federal Government commenced.

Our correspondent, who visited some of the local governments, explained that participants who were present to obtain the forms had difficulty as the situation turned rowdy.

Two of the youths at the Ibadan South-West Local Government Council Development Area at Dick Road, Aleshinloye, lamented that the distribution process was politicized.

Speaking with Radio Nigeria, other youths in other local governments also said that the forms were only given to the elderly rather than youths.

The two day distribution of forms for the one thousand employment programmes on public works per local government in Oyo State will end tomorrow, Friday.

Taiwo Akinola