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  • Age Requirement is Unconstitutional (Pls Read This)

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    terryhonest
    Published on Apr 18th, 11 09:45 pm
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    It is a usual practice by recruiting organizations to specify age requirements as part of their eligibility criteria. In most vacancies the maximum age for entry level applicants is usually pegged at 27/28 and in some ridiculous circumstances 24/25. After consulting the 1999 Constitution I discovered that this practice is unconstitutional as it is a form of discrimination.
    Section 42 subsection 2 states that “No citizen of Nigeria shall be subjected to any disability or deprivation merely by reason of the circumstances of his birth”. Ladies and gentlemen your date of birth and hence your age is a circumstance of birth so also is your sex and ethnicity. Employers have been getting away with this constitutional violation because nobody has challenged the practice rather people go about doctoring their ages so as to meet up with these ridiculous age requirements.

    The following are the only jobs that the constitution has placed age restrictions and these jobs are mostly electoral office positions;
    1) President ; must be 40 years old...section 131 subsection 2b
    2) Vice president; same as that of the president... section 142 subsection 2
    3) Senator; must be 35 years old...section 65 subsection 1a
    4) House of representative; must be 30 years old... section 65 subsection 1b
    5) Governor ; must be 35 years old...section 177 subsection 1b
    6) &nbspeputy Governor; ; same as that of the Governor... section 187 subsection 2
    7) Members of the house of assembly; must be 30 years old... section 106 subsection 1b

    Other jobs include state commissioners and special advisers to governors (which have the same requirements as those of members of the house of assemble) and ministers and special advisers to the president of the federation (which have the same requirements as those of the House of Representatives).

    Ladies and gentlemen, taking into account our erratic educational system with its numerous strikes, most students especially those in federal and state higher institutions end up graduating in their mid twenties and when you then factor in the one year NYSC and the waiting period of prospecting for jobs (which could range from months to years) you will notice that a significant number of graduates would have exceeded the maximum age limits placed by prospective employers.

    Dear naija jobbers, the wind of change is blowing and we should not just sit and watch our rights been trampled upon and I think now is the time to act. In developed countries you will be prosecuted if you dare place age requirements for any job vacancy.

    By the grace of God, when the new government kicks off we should bring this issue to the attention of the national assembly or on the other hand we can go to the courts using a prospective employer as a scapegoat since it is a constitutional matter.
    Please members of the House your suggestions and contributions are seriously needed in this matter of great importance.

    I do not want to lie about my age because it is not a crime and I shouldn’t be made to suffer for it.

    God bless you all.
    akmike, vingoze, gzl and 11 others like this.
    This article was originally published in forum thread: Age Requirement is Unconstitutional (Pls Read This) started by terryhonest View original post
    Comments 39 Comments
    1. white rose's Avatar
      white rose - Apr 18th, 11, 10:11 pm
      I'm in, cos i know i'll benefit from it.
    1. The Kid's Avatar
      The Kid - Apr 19th, 11, 02:28 am
      This makes sense oh!....
    1. Brainx's Avatar
      Brainx - Apr 20th, 11, 11:38 am
      This will be a very hard case to sell. the constitution is not enforced in this country.
    1. kaydee4life's Avatar
      kaydee4life - Apr 20th, 11, 03:32 pm
      this is a welcome idea, i imagine the age of the employer when they got thier first job. am in support
    1. onwukarisa's Avatar
      onwukarisa - Apr 20th, 11, 06:23 pm
      most of these employers give an age limit thats practically unrealistic. i hope most of us saw the requirement for access bank recruitment. Bro, thanks alot for this info.
    1. qamuflaj's Avatar
      qamuflaj - Apr 23rd, 11, 01:21 pm
      Imagine this kind of thing in this country, even we Nigerians are killing our ownselves! Even the employers are contributing to the unemployment rate in the country and at the same time, depriving us of our constitutional rights. I have nt realy read dat constitution very well and I thinks its high time i get started!
    1. ceeboi's Avatar
      ceeboi - May 12th, 11, 04:31 pm
      we must fight this ooo!!!
    1. amonuh's Avatar
      amonuh - May 16th, 11, 05:03 pm
      Count me in cos it is not affecting only we of this present generation who are unemployed. What about those that are coming behind us it high time we make one of the employees a scapegoat .
    1. nwabunor's Avatar
      nwabunor - May 20th, 11, 07:03 pm
      Yes,I support this cause.Why should someone who is qualified for a job be denied the opportunity to get the job simply because he/she is above the stipulated age?In this country of ours where the government of the day is not bothered about job creation,the employment field should be made a level playing ground for all qualified persons to get employed irrespective of their ages,After all,many of these companies are managed by Nigerians and aware of age cheats.Why the age limit?It's absolute nonsense.
    1. kessy2011's Avatar
      kessy2011 - May 21st, 11, 08:23 pm
      I completely subscribe to this
    1. dskingdavid's Avatar
      dskingdavid - May 23rd, 11, 11:10 pm
      yes oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooo
    1. kanock's Avatar
      kanock - May 25th, 11, 01:02 pm
      This cause is worth fighting for!
    1. chiomaHR's Avatar
      chiomaHR - May 25th, 11, 04:16 pm
      My name is Chioma and am an HR Officer. i also support this cause with my experience thus far in recurtiment i've found that gender is insigificant and it's all about the attitude and capacity of the personality in question. I have some vacancies on my web page but am not getting enough response hence i've been advice to post the vacancies on naijahot jobs follow the link below you might know someone who needs a job.

      http://www.ilbagnonigeria.com/careertest_vacancies.php

      these vacancies close by 8th June 2010. lets help the right people get a right job please forward to others too.
    1. sheu2010's Avatar
      sheu2010 - May 31st, 11, 01:07 pm
      For so long we have been suffering from this disease called NOT MORE THAN........... YEARS, and now, i believe it is high time we cured it. I thank you for this wake-up call and now we can't afford to slumber on achieving results through reasonable but radical means. Our voice must be heard and demands be met .
    1. Obogho's Avatar
      Obogho - Jun 1st, 11, 06:44 pm
      Put your date of birth or age on your CV in the UK and be sure you will not likely be shortlisted, I wonder why everything is different in Nigeria!!
    1. showmelove's Avatar
      showmelove - Jun 7th, 11, 02:28 pm
      Hello House this issue is a serious matter to deal with, but first the Govt. that u'll take ur case to are in the same as other. Take look at civil service rule, u'll see the age limit from 18yrs and not more than 50 yrs.
      From the above, Are there not same with other employee

    1. Adedeji Theophilus's Avatar
      Adedeji Theophilus - Jun 28th, 11, 07:39 am
      Even if this great course is fought and eventually won and the prospective employers are restricted from placing age limit as part of their criteria, they can still successfully do without letting the applicants and the general public know because they owe no applicant any reason for not employing him/her. May God see us through. Amen.
    1. Emmabishop's Avatar
      Emmabishop - Jun 28th, 11, 09:55 pm
      We have to push for a body to monitor equal opportunity employment through the ministry of Labour. For example, in the UK all the employers ask applicants to fill the equal opportunity form for records purposes. This is used to report back to the regulatory authority.

      House, can we see the below link as see if we can start the campaign with that employer.
      http://www.oandoplc.com/wp-content/u...dvert_2011.jpg
    1. mukhtarworld's Avatar
      mukhtarworld - Jul 4th, 11, 10:27 am
      i support this campaign.
    1. bukyekaiko's Avatar
      bukyekaiko - Jul 4th, 11, 11:15 am
      We need to consult a human rights lawyer who can do it for us ex gracia. At least, if we win, the damages can go to him for his efforts. Let's meet on yahoo, facebook or Nimbuzz chat. bukyekaiko@yahoo.com, bukyekaiko@nimbuzz.com. Let's trash this menace.
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