Kawu Condemns South East Govs over forced registration of Northerners
Deputy minority leader of the House of Representatives Rep. Suleiman
Kawu Sumaila has condemned the recent decision of some south east state
governments to register all northerners living in the state.
In a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja on Thursday, Kawu
said such actions by the Imo state government is tantamount to making
northerners second class citizens in their country.
These kind
of actions are misguided, unfortunate and highly provocative. I strongly
condemn it and warn those propagating it to desist from such paths of
perdition.
The constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
1999 (as amended) guarantees freedom of movement for all citizens no
matter their ethnic group, religion or section, therefore any attempt to
compel our people to register in Imo or any other state for that matter
is a gross infringement of their fundermental human right to liberty
and violation of the constitution.
I urge the state governments
involved to as a matter of urgency and necessity reverse the
ill-informed decision in the interest of peace, stability and national
unity.
Nigerians need to be reminded that there are millions of
Igbo people in all nooks and crannies of the north who are engaged in
genuine businesses. These are law abiding Nigerians who are our friends
and we have for long continued to offer assistance to them on individual
and collective basis. This relationship shuold not be destroyed at this
point in time.
It is on record that many people from the south
east region have been arrested in the acts of armed robberies and
kidnappings in the north and other parts of the country but there was
never a time when any of the northern state government compelled
innocent Igbos to register in their states.
If this decisions
is not reversed however, we may not be left with any option than to met
out similar treatment to their people living in our states. It is the
responsibility of the Imo state government to forestall this by
reversing it's decision.
I call on President Goodluck Jonathan
who is the commander inchief of the armed forces and father of the
nation to call these state governments to order as he has both the legal
and moral obligation to protect all Nigerians from being made
foreigners in their country.
Signed:
Hon. Suleiman Kawu Sumaila OFR,
Deputy Minority Leader,
House of Representatives.
6/26/2014
Kawu Condemns South East Govs over forced registration of Northerners
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