Job seekers besiege INEC for limited vacancies

Job seekers besiege INEC for limited vacancies

Thousands of job seekers yesterday besieged the Ogun State office of the Independent National Electoral Commission {INEC} to fill vacancies for which their numbers vastly outnumbered.

The applicants, who had earlier applied online, are seeking for employment as Legal Officers, Executive Officers, Data Operators and Store Officers.

On arrival at the Oke-Mosan office of the Commission, the applicants, who were locked outside the gate of the commission to prevent them from bombarding the premises, had to embark on what was described as general registration, whereby they {applicants} registered their identities before they were called in a batch for interview.

The job seekers include graduates of National Diploma, Higher National Diploma and Bsc. holders.

Some nursing mothers were not left out, as they were seen with their babies under the scorching sun, waiting for their turn for the interview.

Attempts to speak with the commission’s management proved abortive, as they were said to be busy. But most of the applicants who spoke on condition of anonymity said their fear was that the exercise may be reduced to ‘who knows who.’ “Some of us just came to try our luck, we don’t have any godfather except God, and with God all things are possible, so we should not lose all hope,” one of the applicants said. But talking seriously, one should not be 100 percent optimistic, because those who will be employed may likely have had their names pencilled down already.”