Court Halts NNPC Ongoing Recruitment - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (J.T)
October 19, 2019
An Abuja High Court has ordered the suspension ofNigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC ongoing job recruitment pendingdetermination of a suit filed by one Pelumi Olajengbesi.
Olajengbesi, a public interest lawyer, had commencedthe enforcement of the Fundamental Rights of all potential applicants to setaside the recruitment by the NNPC on the ground that it wasdiscriminatory.
The recruitment had disqualified Nigerians above theage of 28 from applying for the vacant positions.
Olajengbesi had faulted the age criterion placed onthe ongoing recruitment of the NNPC noting that it violated section 3 of theFundamental Rights Enforcement Procedure, 2009 which protected the publicinterest of Nigerians.
He had written to the then Group Managing Director ofNNPC Maikanti Baru, on March 26, threatening to drag the organisation to courtfor placing discriminatory age requirement on qualified Nigerians who wouldhave applied for the jobs advertised by the corporation.
The presiding judge, Justice Muhammed Tsoho informedthe respondents counsel that his counter was not proper before the Court andhad not been regularised. He adjourned the matter until October 29, forhearing.