An Igbo group, Igbo National Stakeholders Assembly (INSA),
has maintained that only restructuring of Nigeria would address the myriads of
challenges bedeviling the country.
The group called for reduction of high cost of governance
and advocated that salaries of the President, Governors, National Assembly
members and all elected and appointed political office holders should take the
shape of Nigerian civil service.
The socio-political organization said the President, vice
president, governors and deputy governors should be placed on level Seventeen
(17) salary scale of Nigerian civil service, while the National Assembly
members should be placed on level fifteen (15).
The Igbo Assembly, in a release jointly signed by its President, Chief John Uche and Publicity Secretary, Prince Uche Erondu on Monday, further recommended that the National Assembly should be a part time job with no other benefit or allowance more than that of the civil service.
It also condemned in strong terms the killing of armless End
SARS protesters at Lekki toll gate, urging the federal government to
investigate the wanton killing and ensure that those involved are meant to face
the full wrath of the law.
According to the group, the protesters were exercising their
right and killing them in cold blood was a crime against humanity.
The Igbo organization called for the sack of all security
chiefs.
It said, “the call to scrap the defunct Special Anti Robbery
Squad (SARS) and reform the police force is a sign that the entire security
structure in Nigeria have failed woefully. It is only in Nigeria that people
die in large number every day for more than ten years now. Boko Haram
terrorists, Fulani killer herdsmen, bandits, kidnappers kill hundreds of
Nigerians on daily basis.
“The primary assignment of government to protect lives and
properties in Nigeria does not work. The killing of our youths who were doing
peaceful protest in Lekki has shown that Nigeria and Lagos State governments
have failed and should apologize to Nigerians. Responsive countries who value
lives provide security for her protesters not watch them being slaughtered only
to play blame games.
“It beats our imagination that the call by Nigerians before
now to remove all security chiefs and replace them with qualified ones has been
ignored to the detriment of Nigerians. The notion that the Nigerian security
outfits cannot provide safe environment in Nigeria is a lie. The impediment is
that the qualified are not allowed to head our security structures, there is no
motivation for security operatives and it appears that some people who are
benefiting from the insecurity are bent on seeing Nigeria destroyed.
“The insecurity in Nigeria is only one part of our problems.
We have a rotten and failed system yearning for holistic overhaul. Now that the
youths have woken up, it is high time those in authority became pragmatic
enough to stop all forms of impunity and address all issues raised and provide
good governance at all levels. Turning deaf ear to this will result to anarchy
and the first target will be the political class.
“In order to save Nigeria from total collapse, Igbo National
Stakeholders’ Assembly, (INSA), also recommends the following: ‘All former
governors, deputy governors holding elected or appointed positions should
resign immediately, while they should be banned from holding offices.
“All corrupt individuals irrespective of party affiliations
should be prosecuted and looted funds recovered.
“Security votes given to Governors on monthly basis should
be stopped and channeled to education and research.
“The children of all elected or appointed political office
holders should be meant to attend public schools, while they and their families
will make use of public hospitals. These include the President, Governors,
National Assembly members”.
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