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Ugly Signs Of Yoruba Marginalisation by hooged: 7:46am On Dec 24, 2011 |
GETTING to write this piece is not the easiest thing for me, not because I worry about the silly labelling it would automatically attract from those who would rather not have the issue addressed, particularly the “marginalisers” themselves, but because there is a sense in which it raises possible contradiction to my advocacy for meritocracy and for regional emancipation that would surpass or render more meaningless the federal honey-pot. But the truth must be told, and unless and until Nigeria wakes up to redefining herself wakes up to the urgency to drastically alter the structure of the polity and government, then our problem should not be compounded by brazen disregard for the rules of even the present arrangement. When I received an e-mail from a friend enumerating the absurdity, the first thing I asked myself before setting out to give exposure to what is clearly a systematic if not systemic denial of the Yoruba from virtually all critical areas of Federal Government is if my reaction would have been the same were some other ethnic groups the victims. I satisfied myself that I would have been so equally aghast to the measure of their population ratio within the polity. And I don’t need to convince anyone else of that. I am going ahead to quote copiously from the report I received, which has also gone out to many a concerned compatriot. It took off asking: “Is there a calculated marginalisation of the Yoruba in a democratic dispensation under the leadership of President Goodluck Jonathan? Or is it simply an oversight by the Executive, arising from an ineffective coordination of the machinery of government?” To be honest if the complaint were limited to what happens in Aso Rock or around the Presidency, I wouldn’t bat an eyelid, for isn’t that what the present (presidential) structure enjoys, if not enjoins? Isn’t that why every ethnic group struggles to have their man right up there? Of course the situation wasn’t necessarily so in Obasanjo’s time as I am reminded by the petitioner of Obasanjo’s out of-the-way “fairness” such that his presidency embraced all ethnic groups, even with the Igbos in ascendancy; adding that whereas the South- West in the main voted for Jonathan in the April presidential election. “Kano State did not vote for Obasanjo in 2003 but was better treated in terms of political appointment than any South-West state.” Maybe as another friend points out, it’s an ethnic thing and not just with Obasanjo. It seems it’s only the Yoruba that care particularly about “fairness” or “balance” in this contraption called Nigeria, reminding me of the story narrated by Gen. Oluwole Rotimi in this column last week where, out of the seven names to be sent for the coveted Staff college training, Gen. lronsi as GOC sent five Ibos, one Hausa and one Yoruba, leaving him (Rotimi) out even when he was senior to all the other non-Yoruba officers! But the relegation of the Yoruba is more pervasive than just around the presidency and runs into government agencies, parastatals, corporations, etc. The petitioner writes: “A situation where the total appointments for the entire South-West fall short of those of certain individual states speaks of either a deliberate effort to ignite ethnic resentment or a glaring outcome of total collapse of coordination in the machinery and records of government.” Personally, I cannot see Goodluck Jonathan having a directly anti-Yoruba agenda; after all, he is in power by the grace of his Yoruba godfather and didn’t he appoint a Reuben Abati to replace his kinsman, Ima Niboro? If President Jonathan were liable, it would only be to the extent that. in his usual self, he looks the other way while those around him are having a field day executing their own insidious private or ethnic agenda: He looks the other way and the economy is in a shambles; he looks the other way and electricity remains hopeless; he looks the other way and armed robbery and insecurity are rife; he looks the other way and our oil is stolen and mismanaged blind; he looks the other way and the country totters in tatters’ My friend raises the alarm that “available data indicate that the Yoruba have lost more than half of their appointive positions since the demise of President Yar’ Adua.” And. as if mirroring my mind on the need for competence and merit above other considerations. he asserts: “The current disproportionately reduced or non- appointment of Yoruba into vacant government positions is not due to lack of qualified and experienced men and women of integrity in their numbers and quality across all spheres of human endeavour in the South-West. Indeed as if to aggravate matters for a nation in dire need of competent men and women of integrity what the Yoruba have been made to lose in terms of numbers in appointive positions is made worse for the nation in the quality of some of the replacement appointments. And here are the samples of key national offices and the state of origin of their leadership as supplied by the petitioner: The Nigeria Top Six: President (South-South): Vice President (North-West); Senate President (North- Central); Speaker (North-West); Chief Justice of Nigeria (North-West); Secretary to the Government of the Federation (South-East) (i.e. no Yoruba). The Legislature: President of the Senate (North- Central); Speaker of the House of Representatives (North-West); Deputy Senate President (South-East); Deputy Speaker (South-East) (i.e. No Yoruba) The Judiciary: No Yoruba in the CJN succession radar for the next 10 years. Top Bureaucracy: SGF (South-East); Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (North-East); Chief of Staff to the President (South-South); Chairman Federal Civil Service Commission (South-East); Chairman Police Service Commission (South-South); National Security Adviser (SouthSouth) (i.e. no Yoruba). Federal Executive Bodies (Commissions): Federal Character Commission (North-Central); Federal Civil Service Commission (South-East); Federal Judicial Service Commission( ? ); INEC (North-West);National Population Commission( ? ); Police Service Commission (SouthSouth); Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission(South-East); (i.e. No Yoruba among the entire 10 executive chairmen of the federal executive bodies listed in Section 153 of the Constitution. Top Corporations & Heavy Budget Agencies: NNPC (North-Central); PTDF (North West); PHCN/NERC (South East); Tertiary Education Trust Fund (North-East); UBEC (North-East); National Health Insurance Scheme (North-East); NDDC (South-South); MDGs Office (South- South); NIMASA (South-South); FERMA ( ); National Identity Management Commission (South-East); FRSC (South-East) i.e. No Yoruba heading any of the top 12 agencies of government. Revenue Related (Generation & Management) Agencies/Offices: Chairman RMAFC (South-East); Chairman FIRS (South-South); Nigerian Customs Service (North-West); Accountant General of the Federation (SouthWest*); Auditor General of the Federation (North-Central); Education Regulatory/Funding/Representing Agencies: NUC (South-South); NBTE (North-West); NCCE (North-East); JAMB (South-West*); NECO (South-East); NERDC (South-East); National Mathematical Centre (North-Central); ETF (North-East); UBEC (North-East); UNESCO (North-East) Security &Anti-Corruption Agencies: Inspector General of Police (North-West); EFCC (North-Central until four weeks ago): ICPC (South-South): Code of Conduct Bureau (North-East). •Culled from THE PUNCH |
Re: Ugly Signs Of Yoruba Marginalisation by hooged: 7:48am On Dec 24, 2011 |
Too bad |
Re: Ugly Signs Of Yoruba Marginalisation by gidson12(m): 8:34am On Dec 24, 2011 |
ow! Shut up, everyone keeps crying of marginalization, when your kinsmen were filling up all the juicy position in the polity did you Lend your voice to the the minority who cried for fair treatment cos they recieved little or nothing from their stollen wealth, nonsense |
Re: Ugly Signs Of Yoruba Marginalisation by Wilywily11: 11:29am On Dec 24, 2011 |
Nigerian rejected Yorubas because of their Fraudulent lifestyle, Yorubas are the architect of Embezzlement in Nigerians, everybody is tired of them. Anywhere they head always go down. Yorubas are not good managers they are only good in Fraud. |
Re: Ugly Signs Of Yoruba Marginalisation by chino11(m): 1:42pm On Dec 24, 2011 |
They should be killed with marginalization |
Re: Ugly Signs Of Yoruba Marginalisation by Nobody: 2:58pm On Dec 24, 2011 |
lol. |
Re: Ugly Signs Of Yoruba Marginalisation by ak47mann(m): 3:08pm On Dec 24, 2011 |
hehehehehehe |
Re: Ugly Signs Of Yoruba Marginalisation by babsjnr(m): 3:49pm On Dec 24, 2011 |
@ igbo boy and willy willy. Ojukwu slave very soon we dey deport una back 2 ur biafra nation. Stupid coward bastard. |
Re: Ugly Signs Of Yoruba Marginalisation by Ayoolu12: 7:19pm On Dec 24, 2011 |
These people and their unhealthy obsession with Yorubas, Yorubas are marginalised, and yet we are to get the largest refinery, We are marginalised, and our states have the best universities, We are marginalised, and some people are absconding their villages to move to our cities, Me thinks 'marginalisation' ain't so bad, I think some tribes should start praying for 'marginalisation', maybe then they will get the bridge they've been crying for for years! |
Re: Ugly Signs Of Yoruba Marginalisation by ak47mann(m): 8:05pm On Dec 24, 2011 |
Ayo-olu12:wake up, refinery is not yours, own by Chinese government by the way,you don't have the best universities,that was ur past glory, come again |
Re: Ugly Signs Of Yoruba Marginalisation by Ngodigha1(m): 11:17pm On Dec 24, 2011 |
*Wilywily:word. |
Re: Ugly Signs Of Yoruba Marginalisation by NegroNtns(m): 11:31pm On Dec 24, 2011 |
wake up, refinery is not yours, own by Chinese government why didnt Chinese build it in East then? Is there something wrong with the East market? Maybe we have the best market |
Re: Ugly Signs Of Yoruba Marginalisation by EzeUche(m): 11:45pm On Dec 24, 2011 |
;d ;d ;d |
Re: Ugly Signs Of Yoruba Marginalisation by ak47mann(m): 11:50pm On Dec 24, 2011 |
[ Negro_Ntns:muhehehehehehe u wana bet,that refinery will not see the light of the day,it will end up like Abuja train track remember |
Re: Ugly Signs Of Yoruba Marginalisation by Nobody: 1:49am On Dec 25, 2011 |
Wonder why other fixated 'non yorubas' seem to be the ones throwing their toys out of their prams for our alleged 'marginalisation'. |
Re: Ugly Signs Of Yoruba Marginalisation by igboboy1(m): 5:43am On Dec 25, 2011 |
babsjnr: hey ofe manu I dont live in Olodowa land so how are you going to deport me? I currently reside out of the country but when I do return I live in Delta state, eeediot coward like you |
Re: Ugly Signs Of Yoruba Marginalisation by ektbear: 5:59am On Dec 25, 2011 |
I don't really expect more from the FG than what is presently given. Everything else we want can be obtained by partnering with foreign capital. Political positions are nice, but investment is more important. So long as power plants, refineries, factories, etc come to Yorubaland, I am satisfied. And those things aren't really for the FG to give/take anyways. Anyway, if they do attempt to "marginalize" the SW, it will only harden the heart of your average man against the FG. Which is probably not a recipe for the success of the project called Nigeria. |
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