Beneficiaries of the employment include replacements for the deceased applicants for the 2014 Immigration job, and other regular recruits who are currently being trained at the two institutions. The victims and the dead were promised automatic job by the former President Goodluck Jonathan-led federal government, shortly after the poorly-conducted test claimed about 20 lives, and provoked public wrath. National Executive Council under former President Jonathan had pledged to offer three job slots to each family of the deceased, two males and a female each. But, sources could not confirm whether the promise was followed while government made good its promise. A source who pleaded anonymity told our correspondent yesterday: “I learnt that we would remain in the school for either three or six months for the training. But, we got our employment letter today. The letter came two years after the government had promised us. The delay notwithstanding, I thank God on behalf of my colleagues, both living and dead.” National Mirror had exclusively reported yesterday that Federal Government had invited victims and persons who replaced the dead applicants for the futile 2014 exercise to training at the Immigration schools. Sources confided in our reporter that the victims, replacements with other regular recruits, numbering over 1000 in each of the training schools obtained their letters. The trainees are grouped into the two schools, according to their academic qualifications. Applicants with senior secondary school certificate are deployed to Port-Harcourt, while those with National Diploma, Higher National Diplomas, HND, and degrees are based in Kano. There are 176 persons who have been cleared by government as victims of the exercise, nationwide, according to National Coordinator of the victims, Edmund Osumah (Esq). Osumah spoke with our correspondent when National Mirror exclusively covered the protest carried out by the victims in Abuja recently. The protest apparently compelled the government to engage the victims. Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Danbazau, had told journalists recently in Abuja shortly after defending the budget of his ministry before the Senate Committee on Interior that the ministry would soon issue employment letters to the victims. “We have decided that we are going to finally take them on board, so very soon we will issue them their letters of employment. We have a committee that is looking at the overall exercise and on the other aspects, we will take decision later. There is a presidential directive and we are implementing that directive, so yesterday we took a final decision on that.]]>