Sir Kadiri. the fact that people complain of lopsided appointments suggests you are more on the side of what is ideal than what the real situation is. Very many conflicts in Nigeria have arisen from the perception of domination by one
group over the other. In an ideal world, we should be more concerned with what brings about our general happiness
than anything else. Sadly, the world we live in is not that ideal place.
Even in the settled nations of the world, people still talk of things such as affirmative action, gender representation, etc.Were you to have set up a world organisation today, there would be equal interest in its composition as it is with its objectives.There must have been a reason why the presidency of the European Union is rotated between the member nations, and not subjected to the toss of the coin.There must also have been a reason why the 50 states of America, irrespective of their sizes and populations, are represented equally in the Senate.
I was one of those who supported the idea of ranching as a solution to the incessant crises between farmers
and herders. I must have written about three or four articles in support of the idea. However, there were those who believed the idea was in furtherance of preconceived agenda.In some sections of the Nigerian society, those who espoused the latter assumption prevailed and, for now, forestalled an idea some of us assumed was in the national interest.That is Nigeria for you.
I hope you are coping well with the situation we are in. Always great to read your patriotic views.
Regards,
Anthony Akinola
On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 9:58 AM Salimonu Kadiri <ogunlakaiye@hotmail.com> wrote:
--Nigeria is severely divided because merits and competences are shoved aside in favour of ethnicity and religion. No one got rid of colonial rulers but colonialists were forced to transform into indirect colonialism after World War II. Colonialists were not in Nigeria either to produce goods and services for Nigerians who they regarded as mice to be trapped with some pieces of cheese. It was plain that the cheese on the trap was not a service to the mice but a means of trapping. As for the military rule, they were not supposed to govern at all by virtue of their training. As Fela put it, the Zombie minded military men should never have governed in Nigeria.
The origin of the subject under discursion, Southwest Tops Appointments of Buhari, was the warning alarm raised by the retired Colonel Dangiwa Umar about the danger of lopp-sided appointments made by Buhari in favour of the North. Umar Shehu Usman, on the contrary, claimed that Buhari's appointments contain more people from the Southwest and he quoted abstract statistics in percentage and not in person to support his claim. If Buhari's appointed persons are to serve all Nigerians, which part of the country the appointees come from is irrelevant as long as they can perform the duties assigned to them to the satisfaction of all Nigerians. It is not a tribe that is appointed but a person with a name and as such we should, in case of failure to perform as required, hold the individual responsible and not his/her ethnic group. As a Yoruba man, no psychological instinct, for example, will make me accept a Yoruba Minister of Water supply when the whole nation, including all the Yoruba, lacks potable water. For me, I think people should stop accepting appointments only for what they can get for themselves, such as monetary gains and glamour of office, and not because they can perform duties attached to the office.S. Kadiri
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Ämne: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - SOUTH-WEST TOPS APPOINTMENTS OF BUHARI.Sadly, the idealistic position you stated here is not the case in severely-divided societies. If all thatmatters is the provision of services, there would have been no need to get rid of thecolonial rulers or military rule. Human beings are governed by psychological instincts.
This comment of mine has got nothing to do with the appointments made by PresidentMuhammadu Buhari. I am merely stating things that I believe relate to human behaviourand feelings.Regards,Anthony Akinola.
--On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 8:03 PM Salimonu Kadiri <ogunlakaiye@hotmail.com> wrote:
--For the reasonable, Nigeria is one nation and one people with the same socio-economic and industrial problems yet to be solved. In year 2020, we should be talking about the merit and competence of Nigeria's public office holders and their abilities to solve myriads of economic and industrial problems troubling our nation and our people. Sensible Nigerians should not, and would not, care about the ethnic origins and religious affiliations of public officials as long as they can demonstrate their merits and competences by producing goods and services, which their offices are designed for, to all Nigerians. The statistic of ethnic appointments is being falsely touted to imply that an appointed person is to produce goods and services to his/her ethnic/religious group and to the exclusion of other Nigerians. Contrary to the fraudulent ploy, the evidence before us is that the people from the ethnic group of any appointed/employed public official in Nigeria also suffer from the incompetence of the official when he/she fails to produce amenities his/her office is required to produce and serve to all Nigerians. Who can generate and distribute electricity, is a question of merit and competence that has nothing to do with ethnicity; who can produce potable water to all Nigerians is not dependent on ethnicity but on merit and knowledge; the ability to refine crude oil is not dependent on ethnic language but on competence and knowledge; competence and display of knowledge in mining iron ore and working it into steel is ethnically independent; and to liberate our herdsmen from the archaic and nomadic pastoralism by introducing pastoral farming (ranching) has to do with merit and competent actions and not ethnic language, etc. As for me, let all public officials in Buhari's government come from Daura, it would not matter if they can demonstrate that they merit their official positions by producing and serving all Nigerians what their offices are created and designed for. The failure of the past and current public officials to meet the expectations of Nigerians cannot be blamed on ethnicities but on the incompetent and unmerited public office holders. Appointment/employment is not given and accepted on behalf of the ethnic group rather, it is always given and accepted by an individual with a name.S. Kadiri
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Ämne: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - SOUTH-WEST TOPS APPOINTMENTS OF BUHARI.Statistics do not lie but liers use statistics. There are appointments and there are appointments. All appointments are not equal. So depending on how you count, you can make any claim, including dubious conclusions.
For instance, in the USA when minorities and people of color complain legitimately based on data that they are being excluded from appointment/promotion to the top executive position in an organization, it is usually countered (by the perpetrators, beneficiary and supporters of such discrimination) with a different set of data showing that majority of the organization's employees are in fact minorities and people of color - implying that there is therefore no discrimination.
But that is dubious as close examination of such data usually reveal that while the organization has many minorities and people of color at the lower ranks like janitors, etc, it has non at the top levels -- which is what was being complained about in the first place.
So one needs to beware when consuming news like this. Only the unwise, biased, naïve or gullible would accept propaganda as fact.
OU--
On Jun 1, 2020 5:06 AM, "Anthony Akinola" <anthony.a.akinola@gmail.com> wrote:
South West tops Buhari's appointments with 33.7 per cent By Umar Shehu Usman | Jun 1, 2020 8:24 AM TwitterFacebookWhatsAppTelegram President Muhammadu Buhari's live broadcast to the nation at the Presidential Villa in Abuja yesterday The South West geopolitical zone has the highest number of people appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari as ministers and aides, an official document obtained by Daily Trust shows. Colonel Dangiwa Umar (Rtd), a former governor of Kaduna State, on Sunday, alleged that appointments were skewed in favour of the North. Buhari appoints Sunday Thomas as NAICOM boss Buhari appoints 42 career ambassadors But a credible source faulted the allegation, saying that the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF) recently released the list of ministers and aides. The document, seen by our reporter, revealed that people from the South West constitute 33.7 per cent of those engaged by the president as ministers and aides. ADVERTISEMENT Dear valued readers, subscribe to the Daily Trust e-paper to continue enjoying our diet of authoritative news. Kindly subscribe here This is followed by people from the North West, 19.5 per cent; North East, 15.3 per cent; South South, 12.6 per cent; North Central, 11.1 per cent and South East, 7.9 per cent. The document further showed that the President appointed 64 people from South West, 37 from the North West, 29 from the North East, 24 from the South South, 21 from the North Central and 15 from the South East. In summary, 54.2 per cent of the appointees (103) were from the Southern part of the country while the Northern part produced 45.8 per cent (87). The distribution among the 36 states of the federation and the FCT showed that Ogun is the highest with 17 people excluding Vice President Yemi Osinbajo while Adamawa is second with 14. Kano has 12, while Edo, Ondo, Osun and Katsina states have 8 each. Those with one include Ebonyi, Imo, Bayelsa, Cross River, Plateau and Zamfara. Col. Dangiwa warns Buhari of 'lopsided' appointments Colonel Dangiwa (rtd), who was Kaduna State administrator during the military era, accused President Buhari of lopsided appointments, saying chaos has overtaken appointments into government offices based on a visible lopsided approach of the government in favour of certain sections thereby pushing the country into crisis. "All those who wish you and the country well must mince no words in warning you that Nigeria has become dangerously polarised and risk sliding into crisis on account of your administration's lopsided appointments, which continues to give undue preference to some sections of the country over others," he said in a letter yesterday addressed to the president. He referred to the pending matter of appointment of Chief Judge of the Court Appeal in which Justice Monica Dongban Mensem, a northern Christian, is serving out her second three-month term as acting Chief Judge without firm prospects of confirmation as substantive head as a disturbing situation. "She appears eminently qualified for appointment as the substantive Chief Judge of the Court of Appeal as she is also said to be highly recommended by the National Judicial Council. "If she is not and is bypassed in favor of the next in line who happens to be another northern Muslim, that would be truly odd," he warned. He further urged the president to pause and reflect on the consequences of failure, be just and fair in managing the country affairs, saying, "Mr. President is either unwilling or incapable of acting on your pledge to belong to everyone – and to no one. "I hope you would see your way into pausing and reflecting on the very grave consequences of such failure not just to your legacy but to the future of our great country." Col. Dangiwa served as a military governor of old Kaduna State between 1985 and 1988 under the regime of General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida.--
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