NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION AND DEPARTMENT OF PETROLEUM RESOURCES WITH MIRAGE EMPLOYMENT CAPABLE OF CREATING INCAPABLE CIVIL SERVICE
It is becoming a pattern for the Nigerian National Petroleum corporation and her sister corporation, the Department of Petroleum Resources to start up a nationwide recruitment that is dully published in the national dailies for qualified Nigerians in different fields of studies, and later abandon the process unattended. This unacceptable trend has elicited so much condemnation among the Nigerian populace as it poses a threat of serious malfunction in the civil service system. Especially when people in the civil service who are highly incompetent, might have come through the "back door". A highly competent civil service is a Crown to the government and a significant driver of productivity.
There is no doubt that, the NNPC has one of the best recruitment process in Nigeria owning to the standard applicants go through during recruitment process stagesBut "The end justifies the means". This best recruitment process will have no difference with a waste in the bin if after spending tax payers money to hire one of Nigeria's best recruitment consultants through which qualified Nigerians for the job are selected, it then ends it with a perpetual silence as was the case of NNPC, 2008 nationwide recruitment.
In March, 2010 the Department of Petroleum Resources called on qualified Nigeria graduates (University and Polytechnics) for various positions in the establishment through the national dailies through Eraproserve, a consulting firm. After which qualified graduates applied and were invited for aptitude test across the nation. Those who made the aptitude test were subsequently invited for oral interview but to our graetest dismay Up till this moment, nothing has been heard from the DPR concerning the release of appointment letters to the successful candidates even after the list of the shortlisted candidates has had sailed through Federal Character Commission(FCC).
Also, in the last quarter of 2010, the hope of many graduate unemployed Nigerians was heightened with the release of the recruitment campaign by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC in November. This was a period when political campaigns were ware at the centre stage for 2011 elections. The job advert was made public with a large number of applications in four categories namely: Graduate Trainee, Trainee Operators, Experience Hire and Contractors; as And applications were made till the advert expires expired December 31, 2010.
The corporation in conjunction with Phillips consulting limited invited thousands of pre-qualified candidates to an aptitude/skills test which was held on Saturday, March 26, 2011 at various centres across the country. Many of these graduates took the risk with the hope of contributing their worth to the national development and took part in the aptitude test. (with no reimbusement whatsoever : consider deleting as u captured it at interview stage).
Subsequent to the release of the result for the aptitude test, candidates were invited for oral interview as usual at the NNPC towers, Abuja between July and August, 2011 to end the interviewing interview process of over four thousands persons that made it to the interview stage. However,till this moment, the NNPC and DPR had have not published the names of the successful candidates according to the Federal Character commission act. Neither have they reimbursed these unemployed candidates which who threw caution to winds could have borrowed to make the interview at the period when the security situation was very prevalent.
The Nigerian 2010/11 NNPC/DPR recruitment Unemployment online Movement reminds his Excellency, president Jonathan of his promise to fully implement the job creation committee's recommendations. According to the president at the first ever presidential summit on job creation, he said and i quote "This government will seize the opportunities that abound in the agricultural and downstream petroleum sectors of the economy to engage the country's youths productively so they don't become prey for mischievous elements''
Nigeria civil service will be as productive as the government under which they support. In Feburary 2012, many organisations and MDA's came defending their 2012 annual budget of which the Nigeria Minister of petroleum resourcse, Mrs. Diezani Alison Madueke also came highlighting the cause of high cost of 2012 budget comprising of made up N51,324,227,840.00 for recurrent expenditure while N8,340,300.00 is for completion of on ongoing capital projects. She could be right to say that, the intending recruitment was responsible to for it; hence but it is amazing to know that this DPR/NNPC recruitment had has spanned for twenty seven months for the DPR hopefuls and ninteen months respectively. for the NNPC hopefuls encounting. This memo is hinged on the disheartening situation of the 2008 recruitment which did not see the light of day after undergoing the same processes, up to medical level.
In conclusion, we call on all relevant bodies, agencies and government; the National Assembly, the Federal Characters Commission, NNPC and DPR board , National Human Rights Commission, the Nigeria Labour Congress and the presidency to inquiry into this ugly pattern being set by the NNPC and DPR in this recruitment saga, to urgently come to the aid of this these unemployed Nigerian youths who are sucessful in the view to resolving the perpetual delay of the recruitment exercise, eschew any potential protest by concerned Nigerian youths. and save the country's civil service from their present state.
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