A Civil Rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers
Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has expressed apprehensions over the lopsided
appointment by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government.
HURIWA condemned the continued domination of strategic
appointments by Hausa, Fulani, and Kanuri extraction under Buhari’s
administration.
It stressed that due to the deep-seated Northern Muslims
domination of all strategic federal appointments under Buhari including the
skewed appointments in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and
the Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS), the next government may need to
“convoke a year-long National Constitutional Conference to try to mend the
deeply broken fences.”
A statement by HURIWA’s National Coordinator,
Emmanuel Onwubiko reads: “The current Government under President Muhammadu
Buhari has skewed all strategic appointments to favour his cronies and
political affiliates in the Core Moslem North and a sprinkling of some
Christian Northerners but millions of Northerners are left marginalised just
like the heavily marginalised Southerners under the current administration.
“However the impact is felt more in the far North whereby
due to a large-scale state of wars by armed hoodlums many poor individuals in places
like Sokoto and Katsina States have since the last two years migrated into
Niger Republic for succour and security whilst only a few Northern elites with
assets offshore are the few controlling the national assets under the watch of
the selective administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
“Last year the Daily Trust reported that Many Nigerians
residing in Katsina State have fled to neighbouring Niger Republic to escape
persistent attacks by kidnappers and bandits. In addition to evacuating their family
members, the Nigerians are also acquiring plots and building houses in Niger
Republic’s towns of Maradi and Dan Issa. This is even as some of them have
obtained resident permits, allowing them to stay in the West African country.”
HURIWA blamed the unequal redistribution of national wealth
for the total state of anarchy in the North.
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