A Coalition of Muslim Organisations in Bauchi State has described Governor Bala Mohammed’s recent policy pronouncement to create a Sayawa Chiefdom with headquarters in Tafawa Balewa town as a desecration of history.
“This hasty policy statement, in our estimation and critical examination of facts and figures, logic and reasoning on good governance for common public good, amounts to disregard for historical facts, lack of diligence in due process, evasive tapestry for equity and fairness, in addition to administration policy somersaults and egocentrism”, the organisations said.
It could be recalled that Governor Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed had on Tuesday, December 9th, 2024 made a public pronouncement for the creation of Sayawa Chiefdom by his administration which resolved to site headquarters of the proposed Sayawa chiefdom in Tafawa Balewa village under Bauchi emirate.
The Coalition of Muslim Organisations under the auspices of Bauchi State Muslims Parliament (BSMP) said in a press conference in Bauchi yesterday that all the four well-balanced committees of inquiries in the Tafawa Balewa crisis from 1991 to 2022 established two fundamental recommendations.
“All the well-balanced committees with representation from across wide spectrum of imminent personalities, stakeholders and interest groups, from late Justice Bolarinwa Babalakin Commission of Inquiry in 1991, through to the Ambassador Jibrin Dada Chinade Committee on Review and Implementation of Reports in 2022, established two fundamental recommendations”.
The Muslims parliament press conference, led by its chairman, Mallam Yusuf Abdullahi, gave the recommendations of the past committees on the creation of the proposed chiefdom: to create the Sayawa chiefdom with headquarters in Bogoro, not Tafawa Balewa, and the justification for Tafawa Balewa as belonging to the Fulani extraction.
Yusuf explained that the coalition of Muslim organisations in Bauchi State remained staunchly in support of setting the proposed headquarters of the said Chiefdom anywhere other than Tafawa Balewa, where its original inhabitants were displaced and dispossessed of their lives and properties.
“As concerned Muslim community desirous of equity and justice for the unjustly treated Muslim Community of Tafawa Balewa, we call for equity and fairness, not only in the eyes of an individual wielding power and authority, but equally in the eyes of the general society.
