An Islamic scholar has called on the President Goodluck Jonathan to give monetary compensation to the families of the victims of last weekend’s Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) recruitment fiasco.
The Grand Mufti of Conference of Islamic Organisation (CIO), SheikhDhikrullahi Shafi’i, made the call at the 5th Conference of Imams and Scholars organised by the CIO at the University of Lagos main auditorium, Akoka, yesterday.
The revered scholar said the option of giving automatic employment to three members of the family of each of the victims is inadequate.
“In a country that the government is serious with governance, the president or any other concerned should resign from their position because of the incident,” Shafi’i said.”In fact, from Islamic perspective the members of the families of the victims should be compensated by paying blood money. The monetary equivalent of blood money for anybody killed unnecessarily is N36, 549,289 million. “
“How do you adetermine the qualifications of those compensated with the employment? Or some parents who lost their children may not have direct relatives that can substitute for the lost ones,” he added.
The money, he said, if given to the direct families would go a long way as a real compensation. Sheikh Shafi’i enjoined government to devise more decent way of recruiting to parastatals and other offices to avoid further national embarrassment.
He canvassed massive youth employment to save the nation from more national disaster.