The Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS) has come under intense public scrutiny following allegations of a compromised, non-transparent recruitment process that left thousands of job seekers mass-disqualified while handpicked candidates were allegedly secretly dispatched for official training. Disgruntled applicants have called on the President Bola Tinubu-led government to investigate the leadership of the federal agency, describing the recent Computer-Based Test (CBT) selection exercise as a smokescreen meant to legitimise predetermined appointments.