Edo group lauds Buhari on Dokubo’s sack

 

The Benin National Congress (NBC) Monday lauded President Muhammadu Buhari for sacking Professor Charles Dokubo as Presidential Amnesty Coordinator.

They said the reorganisation of the agency was long overdue.

 The group alleged that the programme under Dokubo was “reduced to a clan assembly in a village square where germane concerns of other ethnic nationalities were flagrantly dismissed.”

This was contained in a statement issued by the group’s director of publicity and intelligence, Dr. David Ekomwenrenren.

Ekomwenrenren said, “The only concern of the tribal lineage of the erstwhile coordinator was addressed.”

Whilst cautioning against another “clannish appointee”, Ekomwenrenren said the group   will resist “crass exclusion of Edo state youths in the incoming administration”.

The BNC recalled that some Edo state indigenes contemplated  re-indigenisation with some clan leaders of Dokubo in order to be enlisted as scholarship beneficiaries or skills acquisition admittance.

“It was as bad as that.  Edo state is host to Nigeria’s largest gas hub, and our people were victim of crass exclusivity under Professor Charles Dokubo. 

“As the presidency shoots a replacement, it is incumbent on us to counsel against the reenactment of such reign of parochialism.

“We have been agitating for the inclusion of Benins into the lofty programmes, the coordinator kept paying deaf ears.

“In Buhari’s second term, deliberate measures must be taken to sack clannish oriented appointees as they are grossly responsible for the seeming unpopularity of the federal government,” he said.

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