Worried by misapplication of the federal character principle, the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi said on Thursday that the principle should be based strictly on merit rather than on ethnicity. Sanusi spoke at the 10th memorial lecture of Chief Kehinde Sofola (SAN) with the theme: “The Role of the Legal Profession in Nation Building: the Nigerian Context.” The emir, who chaired the lecture, said the government should only ensure that representatives of the people in political, legal, or economic institutions in the country were drawn from suitably qualified individuals and not on ethnic considerations. The Federal Character Commission Act was promulgated in 1995 and later fused into the 1999 Constitution in the wake of agitations for fair share of political positions across the country. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the Emir of Kano In the guiding principles and formula for the distribution of all cadres of posts across the country, the Act stipulates in its Part 1 that (1) “Each state of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory shall be equitably represented in all national institutions and in public enterprises and organisations. (2) The best and the most competent persons shall be recruited from each state of the federation to fill positions reserved for the indigenes of the FCT.” It was introduced to promote national unity and foster national loyalty instead of regional interests and eventually give every Nigerian a sense of belonging no matter anyone’s religion, language or ethnic group. Sanusi said:“The issue of federal character should not be an excuse for nepotism; it should be based strictly on merit and not on family or ethnic sentiments.” According to him, a true application of the federal character principle will help to preserve the rule of law in the country. Described democracy as rule of law based, the one-time Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria called on Nigerians to protect and defend the integrity and dignity of the nation’s legal institutions. “As we live today, we must understand that it is our duty to respect the various institutions of our country. “We cannot sit and watch as spectators as our institutions are being destroyed; to be a true Nigerian we must learn to look at our leadership and tell them where they are going wrong,” Sanusi said. On human rights and liberty, the emir stressed the need for the society to pay attention to child rights. “No religion permits infringement on the rights of any child. You find children in the streets hawking when they should be in school while some female children are even forced into marriage. “Even the Sharia Law requires you to first seek the consent of your female child before giving her out in marriage and so the rule of law expects us to be law abiding,” he said. Sanusi also urged leaders at all levels to obey the rule of law rather than being intoxicated with power, saying “power is transient”. As leaders, he said, they should perform their duties diligently for the benefit and common good of the people in accordance to the laws of the country. For Sanusi strict adherence to the rule of law and treading the path of truth was the panacea to the scourge of corruption currently ravaging the country. A human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), a discussant at the lecture, called on lawyers to abide by the rule of law and shun every form of corrupt practices in court and in public life. According to Falana, the rule of law demands that the country is governed by law and the constitution. He appealed to leaders to ensure that the rights and liberties of the citizenry were protected, adding “this can only be done by adherence to the law.” Falana condemned corrupt practices by judicial and political officers and urged citizens to stand up and fight corruption. He described law as the sole guide and guard for any society, and that the court remained the temple of justice with judges as administrators in the temple. Comparing the operation of law in Africa and Europe, Falana bemoaned the spate of violation of the law particularly in Nigeria and called for a redress. He noted that some legal officers use of frivolous applications in court to stall proceedings and put a clog in the wheels of justice. “Take a look at court proceedings and you find some cases lingering on for more than five years; the situation is even worse when such lawyers still come to the same court to seek adjournments. “There is also this “rude” practice where lawyers undertake briefs for their clients, and seek their opinion if they would prefer the case to be delayed in court; this is simply absurd.” Falana, who urged lawyers must see themselves as officers of the court and act accordingly, said they should shun practices aimed at subverting the law. In her remarks, another discussant, Prof. Isabella Okagbue, also criticised frivolous applications aimed at perverting justice and condemned corruption in the legal profession. “The court must not adjourn any case at the request of counsel; cases must go on and frivolous adjournments must be discouraged.” A former Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Ayotunde Philips, who spoke on behalf of Kehinde Sofola Chamber’s Alumni, extolled the virtues of the late legal icon. She described Sofola as a watchdog for all his employees and kept everyone on his toes as well as demanded dedicated to the profession. She attributed her success in legal practice to the “ever present help” of the late legal icon, adding that lawyers must learn from the good conduct of their predecessors in order to be successful. The lecture was attended by Edo Governor Godwin Obaseki, a political activist, Dr Junaid Muhammed, Justice Bimbo Obaseki-Adejumo and senior lawyers.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/base-federal-character-merit-not-ethnicity-says-sanusi/

See as e sweet for him mouth cos them want console biafrans but in practice na war this is what led to anti igbo crisis in north in the fifties cos igbos are in the civil service

It may even pay some ethnics than others. For instance, an igbo man as the president will pick as many people as he can pick from his region claiming they are d most capable hand (merit).

Is Buhari the best brain in this country?
If we base it on merit Mr Sanusi, do u think Buhari will be President? The Certificate-less General.
Only in Arewa can u base it on merit, Nigeria is a composition of at least 4 countries and each requires representation at the center.
Take ur Hausa-Fulani territory to Niger Republic and base it on merit.

tobida:
Is Buhari the best brain in this country?
If we base it on merit Mr Sanusi, do u think Buhari will be President? The Certificate-less General.
Only in Arewa can u base it on merit, Nigeria is a composition of at least 4 countries and each requires representation at the center.
Take ur Hausa-Fulani territory to Niger Republic and base it on merit.

HMMMNN
PEOPLE CAN TALK.
I KNOW YOUR FRUSTRATION
PLEASE START BY CONTESTING FOR COUNCILOR IN YOUR HAMLET,
MR PEOFESSOR EMERITUS YOU MIGHT REACH THE TOP,
TRUST ME ITS THAT EASY

What is sanusi saying. He does not know what he is saying.

Once it is based on merit the issue of ethnicity or even federal character cannot be applied again.

If there are 10 places available in a company or govt parastatal and an exam is conducted if the the first 10 come from just 3 states within thebsame region, if its truely based on merit those candidates will get the positions. So the issues of federal character and ethnicity would die naturally.

But with federal character in play they will probably increase the spaces to 12 creating 2 irrelevant positions and then give appointment to 2people from each region regardless of the fact that the best 12 probably came from one region.

I didn't even read the nonsense.

NASTYNASOSO:

HMMMNN
PEOPLE CAN TALK.
I KNOW YOUR FRUSTRATION
PLEASE START BY CONTESTING FOR COUNCILOR IN YOUR HAMLET,
MR PEOFESSOR EMERITUS YOU MIGHT REACH THE TOP,
TRUST ME ITS THAT EASY

Do u know that Nigeria as it is today cannot function with the said system that Sanusi is proposing?
If u doubt, take a look at Buhari appointment are those people the best brains in the country?
If u ask me, Sanusi is making a call for the northernisation of Nigeria. This is part of their islamisation agenda.
Nigeria is never accept such a system where by everybody in government will be from Daura.
Nobody have a monopoly of knowledge and as such the government should search for the best brain from all the 6 geopolitical zones.

tobida:


Do u know that Nigeria as it is today cannot function with the said system that Sanusi is proposing?
If u doubt, take a look at Buhari appointment are those people the best brains in the country?
If u ask me, Sanusi is making a call for the northernisation of Nigeria. This is part of their islamisation agenda.
Nigeria is never accept such a system where by everybody in government will be from Daura.
Nobody have a monopoly of knowledge and as such the government should search for the best brain from all the 6 geopolitical zones.

HMMMNN
WHO TOLD YOU THAT GOVERNANCE IS ALL ABOUT HAVING THE BEST BRAINS
PUT IT INSIDE YOUR HEAD GOVERNANCE IS ABOUT PERFORMANCE.
IF IT TAKES THE BEST BRAINS TO GOVERN WE WOULD JUST ENGAGE ALL OUR ACADA PROFESSORS
THIS SHOWS THAT YOU ARE A TRUE PRODUCT OF A FAILED SYSTEM.
SORRY BROS,YOU DID NOT PASS THROUGH THE SCHOOL SYSTEM BUT THE SYSTEM PASSED THROUGH YOU.
GO BACK TO SCHOOL, ITS NEVER LATE

NASTYNASOSO:

HMMMNN
WHO TOLD YOU THAT GOVERNANCE IS ALL ABOUT HAVING THE BEST BRAINS
PUT IT INSIDE YOUR HEAD GOVERNANCE IS ABOUT PERFORMANCE.
IF IT TAKES THE BEST BRAINS TO GOVERN WE WOULD JUST ENGAGE ALL OUR ACADA PROFESSORS
THIS SHOWS THAT YOU ARE A TRUE PRODUCT OF A FAILED SYSTEM.
SORRY BROS,YOU DID NOT PASS THROUGH THE SCHOOL SYSTEM BUT THE SYSTEM PASSED THROUGH YOU.
GO BACK TO SCHOOL, ITS NEVER LATE

This conversation is over, the answer u are looking 4 is a big capital letter NO!
Go to Niger Rep with ur HausaFulani territory, we cannot permit Niger people to dominate us. Nigeria is a shared and compromising entity that requires management and wen u are unable to manage u simply leave in peace, let the rest of us continue to manage.

tobida:


This conversation is over, the answer u are looking 4 is a big capital letter NO!
Go to Niger Rep with ur HausaFulani territory, we cannot permit Niger people to dominate us. Nigeria is a shared and compromising entity that requires management and wen u are unable to manage u simply leave in peace, let the rest of us continue to manage.

HMMMNN
YOUR OBSESSION WITH THE HAUSA FULANI IS A SIGN OF TOTAL DEFEAT AND CONVULSION OF YOUR INNERMOST FEARS
I JUST HOPE YOU HAVE NO OTHER PROBLEM APART FROM YOUR HAUSA FULANI INTRIGUE
SEEK HELP BEFORE YOUR CASE BECOMES COMPLICATED

tobida:


This conversation is over, the answer u are looking 4 is a big capital letter NO!
Go to Niger Rep with ur HausaFulani territory, we cannot permit Niger people to dominate us. Nigeria is a shared and compromising entity that requires management and wen u are unable to manage u simply leave in peace, let the rest of us continue to manage.

HMMMNN
YOUR OBSESSION WITH THE HAUSA FULANI IS A SIGN OF TOTAL DEFEAT AND CONVULSION OF YOUR INNERMOST FEARS
I JUST HOPE YOU HAVE NO OTHER PROBLEM APART FROM YOUR HAUSA FULANI INTRIGUE
SEEK HELP BEFORE YOUR CASE BECOMES COMPLICATED

NASTYNASOSO:

HMMMNN
YOUR OBSESSION WITH THE HAUSA FULANI IS A SIGN OF TOTAL DEFEAT AND CONVULSION OF YOUR INNERMOST FEARS
I JUST HOPE YOU HAVE NO OTHER PROBLEM APART FROM YOUR HAUSA FULANI INTRIGUE
SEEK HELP BEFORE YOUR CASE BECOMES COMPLICATED

Do u see how unreasonable u are? Let me ask u people something, please don't be offended.
HausaFulani wanted power at all cost. What have u done with the power now since 2015?
Now ur problem is federal character. Bunch of crazed jihadist. It is always one thing after another.
We know u want both President and Vice to be Hausa Fulani and all the cabinet and arms of government to be hausa fulani, y not go back to Niger Republic? Just go!
Another question is wat policy will u now pursue once u have all the office in ur pocket? Islamisation of Black Africa?
Criminality is not religion my brothers. Did Africans tell u they prefer arab culture to their native african cultures?

tobida:


Do u see how unreasonable u are? Let me ask u people something, please don't be offended.
HausaFulani wanted power at all cost. What have u done with the power now since 2015?
Now ur problem is federal character. Bunch of crazed jihadist. It is always one thing after another.
We know u want both President and Vice to be Hausa Fulani and all the cabinet and arms of government to be hausa fulani, y not go back to Niger Republic? Just go!
Another question is wat policy will u now pursue once u have all the office in ur pocket? Islamisation of Black Africa?
Criminality is not religion my brothers. Did Africans tell u they prefer arab culture to their native african cultures?

HMMMNN
DAMN BRO
WHO DO YOU THIS THING?
SORRY KPELE

Who is resetting the brain of SLS?

He preached against Girl and child marriage and now he is preaching against federal character based on ethnicity.

NASTYNASOSO:

HMMMNN
DAMN BRO
WHO DO YOU THIS THING?
SORRY KPELE

U people are determined to burn this country down, i can see.
It is time to take our country back and i personally will lead and supervise that exercise, the madness have gone on for long enough and enough is enough. Wat even make u think ethnicity is not important in deciding employees at the place of work? Do u know wat discrimination is and right to equal opportunity? It appears to me that u people are just making it up as u go to suit ur short term purpose with no consideration for the long term effects. Nigeria is a divided country and ethnicity is everything.
We will make laws that ensures that biggots such as Buhari will never hold our democratic institution capitive with the cabal that he has handed every federal office in Aso rock, whom now want to capture the remain they were unable to capture via scrapping the federal character.

Emycord:
See as e sweet for him mouth cos them want console biafrans but in practice na war this is what led to anti igbo crisis in north in the fifties cos igbos are in the civil service

NASTYNASOSO

before u quote me again read the bolded. U can do wat Sanusi says in a homogenous state not a non homogenous state.
wat we should be discussing is power rotation.

tobida:


Do u see how unreasonable u are? Let me ask u people something, please don't be offended.
HausaFulani wanted power at all cost. What have u done with the power now since 2015?
Now ur problem is federal character. Bunch of crazed jihadist. It is always one thing after another.
We know u want both President and Vice to be Hausa Fulani and all the cabinet and arms of government to be hausa fulani, y not go back to Niger Republic? Just go!
Another question is wat policy will u now pursue once u have all the office in ur pocket? Islamisation of Black Africa?
Criminality is not religion my brothers. Did Africans tell u they prefer arab CULTURES to their native african cultures?

HMMMNN
THIS WAS, HOW THE JEWISH CROONER STARTED,AT LEAST WE KNOW HE IS IN KUJE,
BUT IN YOUR OWN CASE, WE DONT HAVE ANY IDEA WHERE THIS WILL LEAD YOU TO

tobida:


NASTYNASOSO

before u quote me again read the bolded. U can do wat Sanusi says in a homogenous state not a non homogenous state.
wat we should be discussing is power rotation.

HMMMNN
REALLY?
WOW!!!

NASTYNASOSO:

HMMMNN
THIS WAS, HOW THE JEWISH CROONER STARTED,AT LEAST WE KNOW HE IS IN KUJE,
BUT IN YOUR OWN CASE, WE DONT HAVE ANY IDEA WHERE THIS WILL LEAD YOU TO

NASTYNASOSO:

HMMMNN
REALLY?
WOW!!!

If we dont talk now and condemn wat is wrong, is it wen we are faced with it more directly that we will start talking?
And as 4 ur threat, my friend death is 4 all of us, Buhari will soon run to UK again, but that will not save him from dieing.

tobida:


NASTYNASOSO

before u quote me again read the bolded. U can do wat Sanusi says in a homogenous state not a non homogenous state.
wat we should be discussing is power rotation.

did u mistake me for another i did not quote you or did i?

Emycord:
did u mistake me for another i did not quote you or did i?

i was using ur comment as an example.

Emycord:
See as e sweet for him mouth cos them want console biafrans but in practice na war this is what led to anti igbo crisis in north in the fifties cos igbos are in the civil service

Are u ibo?

Nigeria is a country bigger than HausaFulani or any other ethnic group.
If u think the policy will discriminate against igbos, wat happens wen igbo leave?
I am certain based on Buhari appointment that it will equally discriminate against yorubas in fact non HausaFulani from Kano, Kaduna, Katsina, Sokoto Kebbi and Zamfara.
Do we keep quiet or support it thinking only igbos will be affected?
I think we have more experience to know that will be a disaster and setting a bad precedent.

tobida:


NASTYNASOSO

before u quote me again read the bolded. U can do wat Sanusi says in a homogenous state not a non homogenous state.
wat we should be discussing is power rotation.

they should have start with power rotation but i think its too late now our mind is made up already

SIRmanjar:
Are u ibo?

correct urself

Emycord:
they should have start with power rotation but i think its too late now our mind is made up already

Nigeria can work, they say bad things happen wen good people do nothing. This is the problem with our nation, good people do nothing so bad people grow in confident and plot more evil.
Nigeria cannot dispence with religion and ethnicity, it is built on just that and everybody should have a representation and power should rotate anything else is a scam to further marginalize based on religious and ethnic lines.

Emycord:
correct urself

Guy u be iggbbbbooo?Cos I know say na dis kain tread pipul dey use cos hate between north ad east.

Lol nobody can be pleased on this forum. The guy calls for meritocracy and people still wailing. People should read Thomas Sowell and learn not having equal outcomes of tribes not big deal. Having people worry about building skills instead of ethic background better.

I'm guessing everything who didn't read past headline didn't catch part of articles where Falana comdem the practice of frivolous adjournments. It seems like that a big issue but wouldnt that be judges fault for allowing the lawyers to play these games. I mean the legnth of time cases can take here is staggering. I mean if your waiting in jail for petty offence the might serve there time in jail just waiting.

Sanusi can only deceive the gullible and myopia deranged mugus.
The Mullah never deemed it fit to make similar prescription to Buhari' predeceror GEJ.

#trash