A civil rights organisation,
Campaign Against Military Impunity, has raised the alarm over alleged
recruitment scandal in the Nigerian Air Force.
The organisation alleged that the
Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal Sadiq Abubakar, had compromised standards
in the recruitment exercise for non-commissioned officers from the core North.
“Presently at the Airforce Base
in Kaduna, there is ongoing pre-training formalities and tests for successful
recruits, where 80 per cent of them are Northerners”, CAMI said.
Executive Director of CAMI,
Victor Coker, told journalists in Abuja yesterday, that the government should
carry out an audit of the exercise and courses going on in all the military
training institutions.
“To unravel this misnomer, there should be an audit of the courses going on in all the training institutions. The audit should look at the composition and last three batches of those in training”, he stressed.
“They were supposed to take 68 persons in each state; but after the normal recruitment, the Chief of Air Staff now brought over 2,000 names spread across the core Northern States.
“Out of this figure, only 30/40 was given to the South. This is not the first time it is happening. Such things have been done in DSS, EFCC, and even police, Army and the Navy.
“We keep on preaching One Nigeria, One Nigeria. But behind the empty slogan of One Nigeria lies bare-faced hypocrisy and grand design to sentence part of the country to perpetual slavery.”
According to him, Northerners
have been so smart to shortchange the entire South even during previous
population census exercises conducted by the National Population Commission
(NPC),
“How can the desert be more populated than the tropical rain forest? This was how the population census was done before independence”, he queried.
NAF Director of Public Relations
and Information, Commodore Olatokunbo Adesanya, has denied the allegation.
He said, “I think it is most advisable that the list of the people recruited should be made public first. Then, those making the claims can painstakingly go through the list.Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
“If there is any state that is not fairly represented, then, let them raise the alarm, rather than be speculating. A list is not yet out, yet people are speculating that the North has been favoured.
“Don’t forget that each state should be fairly represented. If you have certified people and everybody in a state are not medically qualified, are you going to disregard everybody in that state?
“We operate with the highest standards and we do not compromise on standard, either medical, physical or academic.”
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south needs to come to terms with the reality that the north controls Nigeria, a northerner can do anything and get away with it. maybe that's how God wants it for peace to reign in Nigeria. anomalies similar to this happens everywhere in our govt and nothing can be done. when a president can spitefully appoint his kinsmen to every available post in his cabinet what do you think his appointees will work for? we preach one Nigeria yet our body language says otherwise, in my thinking Nigeria should be not be divided but be restructured make the centre weak and states stronger
ReplyDeleteIt is clear time for true federalism. This notion of“We operate with the highest standards and we do not compromise on standard, either medical, physical or academic.” is fraudulent. Nigeria by the name is a failed state.
ReplyDeleteIt has become a tradition when ever there is recruitment into any federal govt establishment for north to come up with all kinds of list like governor's list, emir's list, hajiya's list and so on while you can't find such list from south and yet if someone ask why, it becomes an offence or you will be called an enemy of nigeria. Tell me why other people won't agitate in the face of all these anomalies. It's high time we restructure this country and shift power to the regions/states while making center irrelevant so that if someone want to prove mugabe or local champion, let him go to his state and do it.
ReplyDeleteTHERE IS GOD O!
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