Welcome, Guest: Register On Nairaland / LOGIN! / Trending / Recent / New
Stats: 3,194,885 members, 7,956,338 topics. Date: Monday, 23 September 2024 at 10:13 AM

Chief Of Air Staff Indicted In Recruitment Scandal, Gives North 80% Share - Politics - Nairaland

Nairaland Forum / Nairaland / General / Politics / Chief Of Air Staff Indicted In Recruitment Scandal, Gives North 80% Share (496 Views)

Trouble In Senate Over Recruitment Scandal / Aisha Abba-Kyari: Due Process Followed In Recruitment Of Kyari’s Daughter –NSIA / Recruitment Scandal In SSS: Anonymous Source From The Presidency Reacts (2) (3) (4)

(1) (Reply) (Go Down)

Chief Of Air Staff Indicted In Recruitment Scandal, Gives North 80% Share by Limitednow: 8:18am On Jun 28, 2017
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 Sadique Abubakar, had compromised standards in the recruitment exercise for Non-Commissioned Officers from the core North.

Presently at the Air Force Base in Kaduna, there is said to be ongoing pre-training formalities and tests for successful recruits, where 80 per cent of them are Northerners, CAMI alleged.

The Executive Director of CAMI, Victor Coker, told journalists in Abuja that the government should carry out an audit of the exercise and courses going on in all the military training institutions.

Coker said: “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.

“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 the Department of State Services, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and even the 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 Coker, Northerners have been so smart to shortchange the entire South even during previous population census exercises conducted by the National Population Commission.

He said: “How can the desert be more populated than the tropical rain forest?

“This was how the population census was done before independence.”

But when contacted, the Director of Public Relations and Information of the Nigerian Air Force, Air Commodore Olatokunbo Adesanya, denied the allegation.

Adesanya 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.

“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.”

Recently, Harold Smith, one of the architects of colonial foundation that midwifed Nigeria’s independence in 1960, confessed how the census was manipulated to favour the North.

Smith was said to have confessed during a programme on Ben TV what went behind the scene before the independence.

The Oxford University graduate said: “I am in my 80s now; I have agreed but in the past they did not want me to say anything, but now I don’t want to go to my grave without telling the truth about the atrocities perpetrated in Africa by the colonialists.

“Our agenda was to completely exploit Africa. Nigeria was my duty post. When we assessed Nigeria, this was what we found in the southern region; strength, intelligence, determination to succeed, well established history, complex but focused life style, great hope and aspirations.

“The East was good in business and technology, the West was good in administration and commerce, law and medicine. But it was a pity we planned our agenda to give power at all cost to the Northerner.”

http://www.socialtimesng.net/2017/06/chief-air-staff-indicted-recruitment-scandal-gives-north-80-share/

Re: Chief Of Air Staff Indicted In Recruitment Scandal, Gives North 80% Share by Nbote(m): 8:21am On Jun 28, 2017
Na today?? What has happened to other secret recruitment scandals? CBN, FIRS, NSCDC, NNPC... Dem plenty.. No need talking about these things becos we are now used to dem.. Not dat Nigerians don't know.
Re: Chief Of Air Staff Indicted In Recruitment Scandal, Gives North 80% Share by Limitednow: 8:25am On Jun 28, 2017
This country sef
Re: Chief Of Air Staff Indicted In Recruitment Scandal, Gives North 80% Share by Pheals(f): 8:39am On Jun 28, 2017
it's not new.... have got lot to say abt this !
Re: Chief Of Air Staff Indicted In Recruitment Scandal, Gives North 80% Share by juman(m): 9:01am On Jun 28, 2017
That was a fraud. A corruption.

That is the kind of change the fake apc represents.

(1) (Reply)

2019: I Will Become Nigeria’s President Through Divine Intervention – Fayose / Google Names Of PDP Members And See What Comes Up | APC Tells Nigerians / Aregbesola Breaks Down In Tears, Says Mother’s Death A Disaster

(Go Up)

Sections: politics (1) business autos (1) jobs (1) career education (1) romance computers phones travel sports fashion health
religion celebs tv-movies music-radio literature webmasters programming techmarket

Links: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)

Nairaland - Copyright © 2005 - 2024 Oluwaseun Osewa. All rights reserved. See How To Advertise. 15
Disclaimer: Every Nairaland member is solely responsible for anything that he/she posts or uploads on Nairaland.