Islamisation Agenda in Nigeria is Real- Our evidence

LOPSIDEDNESS OF APPOINTMENTS

Are we telling lies that the Security Committee of the Buhari administration is Muslims dominated?

Are we telling lies that the following are Muslims; The Director-General of the Department of State Services, Lawal Daura; the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu; and the Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris?

Are these appointees of the President not Muslims; the President’s Chief Security Officer, Abdulkarim Dauda who replaced Abdulrahman Mani; State Chief of Protocol, Abdullahi Kazaure; Aide-De-Camp, Lt.-Col. Muhammed Abubakar; and Officer in Charge of Presidential Movement, Kayode Sikiru Akande?

What is the religion of Abba Kyari his Chief of Staff; Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (rtd.) the Comptroller-General, Nigerian Customs Service; the current Minister of Interior, Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (retd.), who appointed Muslims to head the Nigeria Prisons Service, the Nigeria Immigration Service, the Federal Fire Service and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps?

What is the religion of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai, the National Security Adviser, Maj-Gen. Babagana Monguno, the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, the Minister of Defence, Brig.-Gen. Mansur Dan Ali, the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, and the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris?

The last time we checked, the Commandant-General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Abdullahi Muhammadu and the Director-General of the Department of State Services, Lawal Musa Daura, are not Christians.

Also Muslims from the North are the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Muhammed Babandede; the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali; and the Controller-General of the Nigeria Prison Service, Ja’afaru Ahmed (Kebbi State); and the Federal Road Safety Commission boss, Corps Marshal Boboye Oyeyemi, is from Kwara State. the former Comptroller-General of the Federal Fire Service, Joseph Anebi has been replaced by a Muslim and so also the Director-General of the National Emergency Management Agency, Sani Didi.

Those we could identify as Christians are the Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Gabriel Olonishakin, the Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas, and the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ayo Oke.

For the record, the three top revenue earners for Nigeria are headed by Muslims; the GMD, NNPC, Maikanti Kachalla Baru, the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali and the Managing Director of the Nigerian Port Authority (NPA), Ms Hadiza Bala Usman.

Most of the heads of the parastatals and agencies are shared at the expense of Christians. Two ministries can be our evidence, Education and Interior. In Education, 13 of the 17 DGs are Muslims under the watch of Mallam Adamu Adamu while Gen Dambazzau appointed all the heads of the parastatals under him among the Muslims.

It is reprehensible hearing from the government apologists like Femi Adesina saying, “Nobody can fault the fact that the persons appointed were appointed on merits. In terms of the spread, the President has prerogative to appoint and he knows there is Federal Character.”

Is the Buhari government telling us that only the Muslims have merits that can make them serve in this government? We beg to disagree. Christians have capable hands that can give what it takes to turn the plight of the country around if given the chance to serve.

And we all know that the lopsidedness is not only a weapon of religion domination but it is also unconstitutional as far as the 1999 Constitution (as amended) is concerned but we are only watching the government otherwise we would have asked the judiciary to intervene.

If the deliberate lopsidedness is against the South, why are the Christians in the North not considered for any of these 'juicy' appointments? Or are they saying only the Northern Muslims merit them all? 
Section 14 (3) of the 1999 Constitution which affirms thus: “The composition of the Government of the Federation or any of its agencies and the conduct of its affairs shall be carried out in such a manner as to reflect the federal character of Nigeria and the need to promote national unity, and also to command national loyalty, thereby ensuring that there shall be no predominance of persons from a few states or from a few ethnic or other sectional groups in that Government or in any of its agencies.”