2nd
July, 2021
PRESS RELEASE:
RECRUITMENT : CIVIL
DEFENCE, OTHERS SHORTCHANGED SOKOTO
The Muslim
Rights Concern (MURIC) has accused the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and
Immigration Services Board (CDIPB) of short-changing Sokoto State in the
2019/2021 Replacement and Recruitment Supplementary List.
MURIC’s
allegation was contained in a statement issued by its director, Professor Ishaq
Akintola, on Friday, 2nd July, 2021.
“A list of
successful candidates in the 2019/2021 Replacement and Recruitment
Supplementary exercise of the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration
Services Board (CDIPB) is being circulated in the social media. Out of 411
names on the list of successful candidates that appeared on the list, only five
(5) are in the Sokoto State column.
“As if that was not enough, a closer look at the names spring another
surprise. None of them appears to have come from Sokoto State (Abdurrazaq
Adinoyi, Y, Mercy Chukwukeru, Nwauzor Peace, Ezema E. Emeka and Umar Tijani).
“It is just
natural that this incident will raise our curiousity particularly when some are
making an issue out of the federal character principle and leveraging on it as
evidence in support of their allegation of Northern domination and caliphate
hegemony.
“But here we
have a case that looks very much like relegation by substitution. There is no
scintilla of doubt that indigenes of Sokoto State may have been heavily
short-changed in this arrangement. The question we are asking is why are there
only five names in the Sokoto column out of 411 successful candidates? Again,
why is there no single Sokoto indigene among the five?
“MURIC calls on the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration
Services Board to provide explanations for this glaring anomaly without delay.
It is not impossible that this is a fake list. If that is so, the Board must
quickly disown it and make the authentic list public.”
Professor Ishaq
Akintola,
Director,
Muslim Rights
Concern (MURIC)
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