Zakari Biu
The youth wing of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has criticized the reinstatement of the dismissed commissioner of police, Zakari Biu.
On September 4, Biu was reinstated nearly three years after he was dismissed over his alleged involvement in the escape of a Boko Haram leader, Kabiru Sokoto.
Sokoto, who is now serving a jail term in Abuja, was convicted for the bombing of St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, Niger state.
The Punch reports that Okechukwu Isiguzoro, the national president of the Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC), accused President Muhammadu Buhari and the federal government of pursuing a northern agenda.
In a statement made on Sunday, September 6, the group noted that the action of the Police Service Commission (PSC) had shown that the Buhari-led administration belonged to the North.
“The manner and impunity with which the Buhari administration is reversing some laudable actions and policies of his predecessor without minding the security implications calls for concern. The decision of the PSC is very worrisome and against all known norms and true justice,” the group said.
The OYC further noted that by reinstating Biu, the president demonstrated that he had no respect for the innocent worshipers who lost their lives in the bomb blast masterminded by Sokoto.
“Before now, we were shouting over the recent lopsided appointments made by the president, where the South-East was deliberately ignored, but the worst has come by rewarding a man who aided Kabiru Sokoto after he snuffed life out of over 44 Igbo indigenes and left over 70 others critically injured.
“Our questions are these: What effort has the present administration made to know the situation of the victims of that bomb blast? What effort has the government made to know the condition of the bereaved families, considering that most of the victims were their bread winners?
“It is obvious that Mr. President cares less about the Ndigbo in this country; we are saying that the current administration is dragging this country into ethnic chaos and it will not yield any good fruit,” the statement read in part.
Meanwhile, the appointment of more northerners by the presdent has been greeted with extreme repugnance by leaders of the All Progressives Congress. Some of them noted that Buhari was already giving the party a bad name among Nigerians.
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