Northern Senators have kicked
against the implementation of the 2014 confab report.
According to them, it is unfair
to ask President Muhammadu Buhari to implement the report of the conference
convoked by a former President, Goodluck Jonathan.
The senators said this yesterday
in Katsina, adding that President Buhari was neither privy to the conference’s
underlying philosophy nor primary objectives, therefore, was not obliged to
implementing it.
The Chairman of the Northern
Senators Forum, NSF, Abdullahi Adamu, said this at the opening of a two-day
retreat of the forum in Katsina.
He noted that, “The report is a
fallacy borne out of ignorance and there is nothing radical about it.”
He said that though the report
had treated restructuring extensively, “It actually fell back on the status
quo. It is mealy-mouthed about fiscal federalism.
“At the conference, the clamour
for state police was deafening, yet what did the conference say about it? It merely
recommended what it called second tier policing in the country with the
modalities for implementation worked out between the centre and the constituent
units of the federation.
“We must also interrogate the
legitimacy of the conference itself. Was it convened in accordance with the
extant laws of the land? Was it intended to usurp the constitutional functions
of the National Assembly?
“The time has come for the
senators to make their views known as their silence should not be seen as a
sign of weakness on issues. It is as if we are sleeping on duty.”
The meeting had in attendance 58
senators led by the Senate President, Bukola Saraki. Governors, of Katsina,
Kebbi and Zamfara; the Sultan of Sokoto, Saad Abubakar, and Chairman of the
Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, Alhaji Ibrahim Coomassie, among others.
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