It was a pathetic sight at the 13th Brigade Premises of the Nigerian Army in Calabar, Cross River State on Saturday [July 5] as over 20,000 youths converged to write the examination for recruitment into the Nigeria Army.
Even when it started raining heavily, the applicants could not leave the field as they waited to be screened to write the examination. An applicant from Cross River State said they were desperate to get the job and would withstand anything to get it.
Comprised of young men and women, the teeming crowd sat quietly as rain drops pelted their bodies and soaked them right down to their under garments while horse whip bearing soldiers stood guard.
The youth underwent rigorous screening exercise before being allowed entry into the field at the Brigade headquarters at Akim
where they wrote the examination as no hall was big enough to accommodate them. They first stood in a long queue which stretched two kilometres beginning from the gate of the Brigade through Mary Slessor Avenue to Calabar Road .
“As it is, I don’t mind if we are recruited and sent to Maiduguri. It is better than not having any job. It is better to die in the war front than to die of joblessness at home. There are no jobs my brother that is why you see me here. It is not I like it”.
Captain Ibrahim Yusuf, the Army Brigade Public Relations Officer, was not present at the examination venue and several calls to his mobile phone by Vanguard were not answered. A source at the venue of the exercise said this year’s rigorous screening exercise of the applicants was to safeguard against any breach in security during the exercise.
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