NCSCN condemns S/East nomination, uses FRSC as case study – The Sun Nigeria

A Civil Society Organization under the aegis of the National Council for Civil Society of Nigeria (NCSCN) has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to appoint another Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) from the South East to balance the situation.

Yesterday, at a press conference in Abuja, the Executive Secretary of the NCSCN, Dr. Raymond Edoh, appealed to President Bola Tinubu to consider the request and act upon it with good will.

According to him, the civil society community cherishes the deepest hope that President Tinubu’s “Renewed Hope” administration, brought to power by God, will strive to right the wrongs of our past and mend the broken walls of our national unity and integration.

He said Tinubu should also take advantage of the retirement of Mr. Dauda Ali Biu as Corps Marshal of the FRSC to seek out the most competent and qualified staff or officer in the corps from the Southeast to rebalance the situation in our beloved country.

“Despite the above arguments and considerations, we earnestly appeal to His Excellency President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to magnanimously reconsider the fate of the South East Zone in the appointment of the FRSC Corps Marshal in favor of qualified personnel from the South East Zone.

“NCSCN is not naive to the fact that, from a political point of view, the Zone may not have deserved such goodwill from the current Administration.

“However, fully aware of the highly nationalistic and patriotic heart of President Tinubu, we earnestly appeal to His Excellency to use this as a demonstration of his great and hospitable heart to rebalance and set the nation on a new and lasting trajectory of national integration and development.

NCSN Media Director, Alh. Gambo Jagindi charged that available and verifiable records clearly show that the configuration of the national security and paramilitary architecture does not properly reflect and represent the federal principle of the character of the nation.

“We can all recall that the Federal Principle of Character in Nigeria was born out of the need to ensure equitable distribution of government appointments to promote inclusion, representation, sense of belonging and balance in the country.

Additionally, Yemi Success, Director of Mobilization, said: “The basic philosophy of the principle of federal character is to ensure equal access to representation in the public service in order to limit the domination of one or a few sections.

“The principle was first introduced into the constitution in 1979 to ensure that public offices and federal institutions reflect Nigeria’s diversity.”