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30 applicants lose job offers after failing drugs test - Adesewa - 11-23-2017
The hope of about 30 graduates to gain jobs at the National Orthopaedic Hospital , Kano, has been dashed after they failed a mandatory drug test .
The prospective employees who emerged from thousands of applicants had successfully fulfilled various requirements and had been shortlisted until their samples turned up positive.
It was learnt that the affected, predominantly youths , were dropped from a 150 - strong list projected to fill manpower shortage at the only Federal Government- owned orthopaedic hospital in the entire northern region .
Abubakar Yakubu ( not real name ) who failed the test however accused the management of deliberate attempt to trim the shortlisted candidates .
“ How can they refuse to give us letters of appointment after we have been shortlisted. It is not fair , to say the least . We were not even told any tests , like drug and others, would be conducted. They just asked us to submit our urine samples and the next thing they said was , ‘ No job again , ’” he said .
Another candidate , who spoke to The Guardian on phone from Katsina , said : “ I also failed the test after paying a required N2 , 500 bill . I was informed , few weeks , ago that our names had been shortlisted. After my credentials were screened , they asked us to do a urine test . Unknown to many of us , it was a drug test . Unfortunately , I failed . I want to appeal to the Federal Government to , please , intervene . We need the job . We are tired of being in the labour market . ”