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At least 324,000 applicants applied for jobs meant for 4,000 people at the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC).

Boboye Oyeyemi, FRSC corps marshall, made this known on Monday when he paid a visit to two centres where applicants were being screened in Abuja.

According to NAN, the centres are the Sani Abacha Barracks, Asokoro and the National Stadium, Abuja.

The screening are reportedly for various cadres, including officers, marshal inspectorates and road marshal assistants.

Boboye said those who would be recruited at the end of the exercise “won’t be more than 4,000”.

“We are working with about 324,000 applicants nationwide out of which we have about 105, 000 graduates,” he said.

“Out of the 4,000 slots, 400 is for the officer cadre. Inspectorate has 1,000 and road marshal assistants, 3,200 slots. It will be a keenly contested exercise that is why they will go for aptitude test to be conducted by JAMB. Those being screened from today (Monday) to Tuesday are graduates and you can see their level of discipline.

“The exercise started early today, and tomorrow nationwide, it will be for the graduates, I believe with the planning put in place, everything is okay. After the aptitude test, they will go for interview then drug test, then the final screening with the corps marshal.”

He commended the smooth conduct of the exercise which he said was as a result of effective planning.

“There is orderliness. The exercise began since six o’clock in the morning. This shows the level of planning,” he said.

“The officers conducting the exercise are going by directive of the secretary to the government of the federation. He has given directive that we must ensure the planning is much better than previous exercises.”

The exercise is expected to end on Saturday.