President Good luck Jonathan has been urged to
immediately sack some ministers in his cabinet that have become
so notorious for engaging in partisan campaign towards their governorship
aspirations at the disadvantage of executing salient aspects of the current
Federal Government's transformation agenda which are targeted towards radical infrastructural
development across board.
HURIWA blamed this diversion of ministerial
attention and resources for individual campaign events by the key ministers for
the ballooning poverty and the general collapse of social services across the
country even as it appealed to the President to rescue the nation immediately.
Besides, HURIWA said it was unconstitutional and immoral for holders of public
offices such as ministers to use public fund and time to pursue their personal
political agenda.
A democracy focused Non-Governmental
Organization- HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA[HURIWA] which made
the observation in a statement signed jointly by the National Coordinator
Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and the National Media Affairs Director Miss. Zainab
Yusuf, said it was in the best national interest that ministers in the cabinet
occupying very strategic beats are not given the 'political franchise' to
deploy public fund in their custody by virtue of their high profile positions
to thwart and demolish the good transformation agenda of the Federal Government
while servicing their own selfish political interest towards the forthcoming
2015 general elections.
The Rights group stated that from extensive
research and opinion polls conducted by some of her members spread across the
Country, it has come to our notice that virtually 35 percent of the members of
the current Federal Cabinet of President Good luck Jonathan have elevated their
selfish pro-2015 governorship ambitions far and above the national and public interest
of executing to its finality the substantial programs and projects encompassed
in the current Federal Government's agenda for the transformation of the
gravely dilapidated and dysfunctional infrastructural facilities across the six
geopolitical zone of the Nigerian state. HURIWA has therefore called on
Government of President Jonathan to grant these ministers the liberty of
deploying their own time and resources to pursue their self centered political
agenda by compelling them to either resign forthwith or be sacked immediately.
HURIWA
stated that so far it has identified the ministers of Federal Capital Territory
Administration Alhaji Bala Mohammed and the supervising minister of Aviation
and minister of state for trade- Dr. Orthom as some of the most vocal ministers
known to have commenced active consultations and political campaign towards the
promotion of their respective gubernatorial aspirations in Bauchi and Benue
States respectively even as it has condemned the recent outing in Bauchi
specifically in which the current minister of the FCT was quoted in the media
to have distributed vehicles to some persons identified in some reports as his
'campaign coordinators'.
The
group also stated that the supervising minister of Aviation and the minister of
state for Trade/commerce Dr. Samuel Orthom was recently seen in the media
attending a thanksgiving service in Benue state whereby he clearly solicited
for the support of the Benue electorate to enable him realize his governorship
ambition by 2015.
HURIWA
said thus; " Mr. President is called upon to immediately appoint a
substantive Aviation minister who would continue and complete the good radical
turn around of facilities started by the immediate past minister Ms. Stella
Odua because we have noticed that as soon as she was forced out of office the
so-called supervising minister of aviation has stopped paying any further
attention to these strategic facelift of facilities at the nation's airports
but instead has devoted substantial ministerial time to oil his gubernatorial
campaign project in Benue state. In Abuja, there is general decay of
infrastructure and social services have gone comatose even as destitute and all
kinds of illegal aliens posing security threats have returned back to the major
streets of Abuja while the minister is always away on campaign trips to his
home state of Bauchi. While we don't oppose any political ambition, we are
against the deployment of public fund or time by serving ministers to engage in
their personal political projects while the national interest suffers."
23/6/2014.
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