₦airaland Forum

Ted Odogwu , Kano



The Coalition of Northern Groups on Sunday in Kano said that job opportunities meant for indigenes of the northern states had been hijacked by people from the South .

Briefing newsmen on the state of the nation , as it affected the North , the spokesman of the group , Abdulazeez Suleiman , lamented that northerners were being denied employment opportunities in the South .

According to him , all vacant positions available in the North , as guaranteed by the local content clause of the Federal character provision in the Constitution, had been surrendered to southerners, as a result of the negligence of the northern elite, who pose as political leaders of the region.

“ Whereas , the local content clause stipulates that all levels 01 to 06 positions in every government establishments must go to indigenes of the host communities in the North , the reverse is the case,’’ Suleiman said.

He also described the North as systematically crippled by multiple security challenges , which threaten the region’ s population and political unity , as well as inhibit its economic and social activities .

“ Recurring violence , involving cattle theft , abductions for ransom , attacks on civilian targets and other forms of banditry all over the North , poses a serious threat to peace and security, with the uncoordinated and inadequate responses by the Federal and state authorities , thereby deepening mistrust and perception of the authorities as biased ,’’ he added.

The coalition condemned the action of Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State , who openly declared Rivers as a Christian state and went ahead to prove it by demolishing a mosque in Port Harcourt .

It said that the governor ’ s action was in breach of the guaranteed freedom of every Nigerian to practise their faith unhindered by any legislation or obstacle imposed by a state or a community .

Recalling another brutal encroachment of people ’s freedom by the Lagos State Government , the group accused the government of apprehending and humiliating dozens of northerners , who were seeking opportunities to lawfully run their businesses in the state , the same way people from other parts of the country carried out their respective trades of choice in the North .

In its resolutions , the group demanded from the Federal Government proof of its capacity to protect citizens in all parts of the North , as minimum evidence that it is serious about its responsibilities .

According to him , all vacant positions available in the North , as guaranteed by the local content clause of the Federal character provision in the Constitution, had been surrendered to southerners,

Deepfeel:
This is the same reason they persecuted the Igbos in the North in 1966 killing 80,00 to 100,00 Igbos that eventually led to the civil war in 1967 when Ojukwu declared Biafra

Esseite:
Those days are gone, the world has gone beyond when such pogrom can be carried out.

El-Rufai had said: “Nigeria consists of two countries; there is a backward, less educated and unhealthy northern Nigeria, and a developing, largely educated and healthy southern Nigeria.

We have to speak the truth to ourselves and ask why is it that northern Nigeria has development indicators similar to Afghanistan, a country still at war?

helinues:

Esseite:
Those days are gone, the world has gone beyond when such pogrom can be carried out.

TooMuchStuff:
The Domestic Demons of death at it again...!
If u know Hausafulani states very well, they don't let southerners get close to their state and LG jobs in all levels let alone some multi nationals jobs.

They discriminate extremely against Southerners and others Christians middlebelt states when employment opportunities is opened.

KaptainAfrika:
THE WEED THESE ONES ARE SMOKING IS OF A PURE QUALITY.

anonimi:
You obviously don't know what you are talking about or trying vainly to mask the demons of death preparing to unleash another genocidal pogrom in northern naijeriya.
Na which one be your case



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