BIAFRA NEWS : Group advocates true federalism, Nnamdi Kanu’s release

    

A pan-Southern Nigeria group, Southern Solidarity Alliance, has urged the Federal Government to jettison the quota and federal character system by embracing a merit-based system through adopting true federalism.

The group also urged the President Bola Tinubu-led administration to release the embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, to end festering insecurity in the South East.

Addressing newsmen in Lagos on Thursday, the group’s National Coordinator, Mr Ndubuisi Okafor, urged the federal government to put an end to insecurity in the South, saying it was affecting economic and social development in the region.

Okafor said, “The Quota System and federal character should be totally scrapped as against the prevailing selective implementation. It should be replaced with a competitive merit-based system which is key to development and should be instituted in every facet. 

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“Nigeria should stop picking where to implement quota systems and federal character, which have over time undermined development in the South and Nigeria as a whole. Where appointments into offices still become quotarized, it must be sweeping. But competitive tests are elevational for stakeholders.”

On Nnamdi Kanu, Okafaor said, “President Bola Tinubu should release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to guarantee peace in the zone. Is there anything the FG, the states, or any individual is gaining from holding him and the continued tension and killings in that zone? 

 “There should be resource control as embedded in an unfettered federalism. Nigeria is gifted resource wise, every federating unit should develop and tap its own resources while paying to the centre.”

The group stressed that selective appointments were bad for a federal system, adding that the allocation of resources to states was imbalanced and Southern states were being jettisoned.

“There should be comprehensive addressing of the imbalance between the North and the South and practice of true federalism. Security should be technologically driven like in other countries of the world. Population data fingerprinting technology and CCTVs should be deployed by all the Southern states. Multilevel policing should be introduced.

“Governments-federal, states, and Local governments should be seen as just. The economy should be improved through practical measures. Equity, fairness, and justice must be seen to prevail. The insecurity in the South-East should be specially looked into.

“Finally, the Southern Solidarity Alliance calls on the Tinubu government to implement the 2014 National Confab report, a product of negotiation among delegates from all the geo-political regions. The report has answers to several ills bedevilling this country. As an alternative, there should be a gathering of a sovereign national conference to cure all ills and remedy all imbalances.”