17th August, 2024
PRESS RELEASE:
EL-RUFAI:
KADUNA GOVERNMENT DRAGGING THE NORTH BACK – MURIC
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has accused the Kaduna
State Government (KDSG) of dragging the North back by a hundred years by pursuing
political vendetta against former governor Nasir El-Rufai. The group
specifically slammed KDSG for ignoring all the brilliant legal practitioners in
the North to pick a lawyer from the South-West for the purpose of prosecuting
El-Rufai.
MURIC’s allegation was contained in a statement issued on
Saturday, 17th August, 2024 by its Executive Director, Professor
Ishaq Akintola.
The statement reads:
“We are deeply perturbed by the pre-occupation of the Kaduna
State Government (KDSG) and its state assembly with the profiling of the
immediate past governor of the state, Nasir El-Rufai.
“Most
disturbing is the manner the state government ignored all the brilliant minds in
the legal profession in the whole North to pick a human rights lawyer from the
South-West for the purpose of prosecuting El-Rufai (https://www.naijanews.com/2024/07/18/kaduna-assembly-hires-femi-falana-to-prosecute-el-rufai-for-mega-corruption/).
“This is a slap in the face of not only that of legal
practitioners in the North but the entire Northern population. It also
constitutes a colossal waste of resources as well as an insult and a disservice
to the whole North.
“Besides, this action runs counter to the spirit of
recognition for and pride in Northern assets, its people, culture and values as
envisioned and enunciated by great Northern leaders like Alhaji Ahmadu Bello,
the Sardauna of Sokoto, Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and the political maestro
of the North, Alhaji Aminu Kano.
“On our fingers, we can count no less than a dozen legal
luminaries nulli secundus of Northern origin. On what ground were these
found unqualified and ineligible? What parameter did KDSG use to pick its
prosecutor from a place so far away from the area of jurisdiction of this case?
“We are
miffed that at a time Muslims in the North and South-West have built a bridge across
the Niger and actualized the dream of our past heroes, KDSG has deemed it fit
to attempt to rubbish the main drammatis personae thereby dragging the North
back by a hundred years.
“We put it to the state governor and the state assembly that this
latest move was motivated by a blind desperation to nail an innocent man, Nasir
El-Rufai, the man who turned Kaduna to London.
“This is not
what the North deserves. The stereotyping, prosecution and persecution of
El-Rufai is not in the interest of the North. It smirks of a desertification of
political acumen. We therefore advise the state government to stop stirring the
hornet’s nest. Leave El-Rufai alone.”
#KadunaStateGovernment
#NasirElRufai
#StopStirringTheHornetsNest
Professor Ishaq Akintola,
Founder/Executive Director,
Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC).
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