Kaduna — Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) yesterday urged the Northern Governors Forum to investigate allegations of bias against northerners in recruitment and promotions in some security agencies.
In a communiqué issued at the end of its National Working Committee (NWC) meeting and signed by its National Publicity Secretary Anthony N. Z. Sani, ACF said the allegation affect northerners with serious sense of concern.
"It is against such back-drop that the forum called on northern governors to use their commissioners in the Federal Character Commission to investigate the allegations with a view to ensuring that the North is not short changed," the group said.
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IT IS AN IRONY THAT THE SAME VERY MEN WHO UNDERDEVELOPED, UNDER-EDUCATED AND EXPLOITED THE NORTH AND SQUANDERED ITS RESOURCES WITH THEIR MANY WIVES AND CHILDREN WHO CONTRIBUTE NOTHING TO THEIR FAMILIES, SOCIETY AND THE NATION ARE NOW PARANOID ABOUT BIAS FOR THE NORTH. WHAT DID THEY DO IN 45 YEARS OF LEADING THE NORTH AND THE NATION NIGERIA. THEY SHOULD OPENLY APOLOGIZE TO THE PEOPLE AND STOP PARADING THEMSELVES AS ADVOCATES FOR THE PEOPLE. WHAT DID THEY DO ABOUT ALMAJIRA PHENOMENON? WHAT DID THEY DO ABOUT WOMEN EDUCATION AND EMANCIPATION? DID THEY USE THE MONEY THEY APPROPRIATED FOR THEMSELVES TO SET US ANY MICROFINANCE BANKS TO EMPOWER THE PEOPLE? HOW MANY SCHOOLS DID THEY BUILD TO EDUCATE THE PEOPLE? DID THEY BUILD HOSPITALS TO TAKE CARE OF THE SICK? WHAT DID THEY DO IN 45 YEARS? ALL THEY LOVED WAS TO BE HAILED RANKASHI DEDE!!!. THEY ARE A SMOKE IN THE NOSTRIL OF NIGERIANS THEY IRRITATE ALL GOOD PEOPLE!!!!!!