Federal Civil Service Recruitment Test: Matters Arising

Only few people are aware that the Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC) conducted nationwide employment test last Saturday (22nd Sept. 2012) for recruitment into the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Education, Labour & Productively.  Many people missed it due to lack of awareness and some due to inconveniences and difficulties from the way and manner in which FCSC released the shortlistment.  The recruitment started around May 2012 when  FCSC invited applications for vacancies in the above-mentioned ministries.  Onyiorah Paschal wrote us from the International Institute of Journalism, Abuja, to discuss the issue. Copied from: hotnigerianjobs.com-

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Federal Civil Service Commission - FCSC Recruitment 2012

Below is the post sent to us by Pascal.

The recently held Federal Government recruitment test for the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Education, Labour and Productively was not only farcical but also outrageous and antithetical to the concept of One Nigeria, which we always like to profess. Apart from the badly organised manner of pasting the list of shortlisted candidates for the test, which made the whole thing difficult, if not impossible, for thousands of applicants to access their names through the lists on the board, there was nothing in the entire exercise to show that those in authority really appreciated the plight of the unemployed Nigerians. Copied from: www.hotnigerianjobs.com

Certainly, it boggles one’s mind why the list of thousands of shortlisted candidates should be merely pasted at the designated centres, instead of making them available to the media for publication or via online publication. Or, could it be that there is no budgetary allocations for these ministries with regard to recruitment? Or, could it be that the funds earmarked for this purpose were misappropriated by the “nation-builders”? What on earth is the burden of leadership in Nigeria? Or, is it that Nigeria is cursed that things can never be done right even in this era of globalisation and advance in Information Communication and Technology? What manner of perfidy are we doing in Nigeria all in the name of running a government?

It beats one’s imagination that a government that always claims to appreciate and feel the pulse of the poor could send the army of her unemployed youths on compulsory marathon race to their respective geo-political zones, unmindful of the distance from where they reside in the country, all in pretence of attempting to constructively engage them. This is not just callous. It portrays a hallmark of insensitivity on the part of the operators of this government. Otherwise, how many of these shortlisted candidates that travelled to their geo-political zones for the test could afford hotel accommodation, in the event of having no relative or friend to accommodate them for a night or two? What about the population that had little or nothing to eat? Or, the percentage of the population that bivouacked under mango trees in police stations, churches, crusade grounds or in uncompleted buildings? In fact, it is most unfortunate that those in power in Nigeria behave at times as if they have no antecedents or as if they are coming from the moon.

Ideally, Abuja is the nation’s capital and the centre of unity and as such is designed to provide a sort of canopy that accommodates everybody irrespective of state of origin, nationality or ethnic affiliation, yet the organisers of this recruitment test, consciously or unconsciously, decided to wreck this arrangement by insisting that emphasis must be accorded to place of origin, whether convenient for the people or not. It therefore becomes disturbing when some residents or persons born and bred in Abuja are reminded that they are non-indigenes of the North-Central and therefore not qualified to participate in a recruitment exercise being organised by their own Federal Government. And one wonders where lies the oneness or the unity of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and our old, though clearly elusive, claim that though ‘tribe and tongue may differ but in brotherhood we stand’.

Onyiorah Chiduluemije Paschal
International Institute of Journalism, Abuja.
08037738607, duluemije4justice@yahoo.com

Note: The FCSC released the names of shortlisted candidates by their states and regions and instructed candidates to go to their various regional and  state civil service commission's notice board to check their names, hence do acreditation  for the exam conducted on the 22nd September, 2012. 
The list of shortlisted candidates was not released online or via national dailies. The FCSC only released a notice on some national dailies instructing candidates to check their names at their regional or state civil service commissions. However, hotnigerianjobs.com is deeply sorry to have missed that notice and to the candidates who entrusted all their hopes in us for such information, we know we have let you down and can only say WE ARE SORRY.
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