With last week’s appointment of Mr Ibrahim Idris as the Acting Inspector-General of Police (bypassing 30 of his seniors), President Muhammadu Buhari further made the headship of virtually all the military-cum-defence agencies and related agencies which wear uniform a Northern affair.
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| *Buhari and Emir Sanusi of Kano |
Records show the following:
Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai – North;
Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar – North;
Acting Inspector General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris – North;
Minister of Defence, Brig Gen (retd) Mansur Dan Ali – North;
National Security Adviser, Major Gen (retd.) Babagana Munguno – North;
Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr Ibrahim Magu – North;
Director-General, Department of State Services, Mr Lawal Daura – North;
Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service, Col Hameed Ali (retd.) – North;
Comptroller-General, Nigerian Immigration Service, Mr Kure Abeshi – North;
Controller-General, Nigerian Prisons Service, Alhaji Ja’afaru Ahmed – North;
Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brig Gen Sule Kazaure – North;
Comptroller-General of the Federal Fire Service , Mr Garba Anebi – North.
If it is recalled that the Minister of Interior, Lt. Gen. Abdulrahman Damazzau (retd.), under whose ministry are Prisons Service, Immigration Service, Fire Service and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, is also from the North, then the Ministry of the Interior with its agencies is virtually controlled by the North in clear breach of the Federal Character policy enshrined in the constitution.
Furthermore, even though it was not Buhari that did it, yet for the first time in the history of
Executive, President Muhammadu Buhari;
Legisture, Dr Bukola Saraki;
Judiciary, Justice Mahmud Mohammed.
In addition, the two arms of the legislature are headed by Northerners: Dr Bukola Saraki, Senate President, and Mr Yakubu Dogara, Speaker, House of Representatives.
