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Pan-Yoruba organisation, Afenifere Renewal Group, ARG, has alleged that
there is a calculated attempt to relegate the Yoruba to the background
in the polity.
In
a state in Lagos by its National Chairman, Mr Olawale Oshun, entitled:
“A cry from the wilderness: The nation has to listen”, the group faulted
moves to marginalise Yorubaland from mainstream politics.
Oshun argued that there are reports of
ethnic cleansing aimed at Yoruba saying “the Yoruba demand to know why
discrimination against us is on the increase.”
He said “we note with verifiable
evidence at our disposal, that most routine appointments and
recruitments into the public service under this administration
completely short-change our people.
For instance, out of the 792 cadet
officers recently recruited for training at the Custom Training College,
CTC, in Kano, only 45 cadets were recruited from the six South Western
States of Nigeria, compared with 263 cadets recruited from the North
West Nigeria. In the same recruitment exercise, the North Central Zone
got 168 cadets, North East 157, South South 91 and South Eastern Nigeria
was allocated 68 cadet officers. The evidence before us therefore shows
that 5.8 percent of the recruited cadets are from the South West while
the North West took the lion share of 33.1% of the lot. We ask: What
exactly is happening here?”.
He also lampooned the Goodluck
Jonathan-led administration for failing to nip corruption in the bud
adding “Nigeria is currently buffeted by corruption in a scale witnessed
only under the dark and evil military dictatorships of Generals Ibrahim
Babangida and Sani Abacha.
Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory
(FCT) has become the official headquarters of grandmasters of
corruption. In an environment where a model of articulate leadership and
responsible governance should be expected, given the enormous powers
and resources available, what we have instead, is an organised and
well-commanded conspiracy of the political and economic elite, against
the Nigerian people, to keep them in perpetual poverty and misery,
through high-level corruption, profligacy and financial impunity.”
Vanguard Nigeria
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