The pan-Yoruba socio-cultural association, Afenifere has commended President Muhammadu Buhari over the success recorded by the military in flushing out the Boko Haram militants from the Sambisa Forest.
The association, however, declared that there was no achievement that could be greater, for the current administration, than to embark on the restructuring of the country as recommended by the 2014 national conference.
The Secretary-General of the Afenifere, Chief Sehinde Arogbofa, while speaking with one of our correspondents on Thursday, also stated that the country would have no peace until it was restructured.
He said, “Our governments from time had been run on trial and error basis and occasionally achieve success. President Buhari has won the Sambisa war, we congratulate him but he still has to win peace in the country.
“Our view is that until we have enduring structure for our country to build upon as it is laid down in the 2014 confab’s report, we won’t be able to have peace and progress and any achievement recorded is just by the way.
“For instance, we recommended the creation of state police and adoption of geopolitical administrative structure. The state police, if allowed to exist, would have automatically taken care of what happened when our girls were being taken away.
“ Let us have an enduring structure, not just occasional breakthrough, which does not last. “
He noted that if there was state police, the Boko Haram group would not have succeeded in the Sambisa Forest, saying it was only the state police that could enable the country to tackle the problem of insecurity effectively.
Arogbofa urged the President to consider and implement the report of the national confab to restructure the country.
Afenifere in another statement on Thursday challenged the Federal Government to reveal the identities of the 11 officers who masterminded the 50,000 ghost workers scam in the federal civil service.
The scam, the organisation said, “has again raised the need to restructure Nigeria as the concentration of too many resources at the centre is one of the major incentives for corruption.”
Revealing their identities, Afenifere stressed, would remove the fear of a grand conspiracy to cover up the crime.
The organisation also expressed concern over the recent report that all the members of staff of the Federal Ministry of Finance who were involved in the 2016 budget padding scandal had been redeployed to the cash office of the ministry.
Afenifere in a statement issued on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Yinka Odumakin, said, “The attention of Afenifere has been drawn to the recent revelation by the Federal Government that over 50,000 ghost workers have been “retrenched” from the public service of the federation.
“…We, however, demand immediate unveiling of the identities of the 11 officers who have been fingered in the 50,000 ghost workers’ scam. This would remove the fear that there is a grand conspiracy to cover up this crime.”
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