Northern Civil Society Coalition on Tuesday in
Kaduna knocked the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the
Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonji-Iweala, of playing an ethnic game to rob the North of
chairmanship of the Federal Inland Revenue Service.
They called on President Goodluck Jonathan to
immediately intervene in the matter. The coalition, led by human rights activist and
President of Civil Rights Congress, Mallam Shehu Sani, while commending
former Governor of Kaduna State, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, for resigning his
membership of the committee set up by the finance minister to
appoint the chairman of FIRS, queried the rationale behind the appointment of a
new chairman when a northerner was already in the position.
Sani Said, “First of all, I must commend Senator
Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi, for resigning from the committee set up by the Minister
of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonji-Iweala. In the interest of his own integrity,
probity and the transparency of the process of appointing the Chairman of the
Federal Inland Revenue Service, it is clear that the minister has an ethnic
agenda.
“It is inconceivable that the minister would set
up a committee to appoint a new chairman of FIRS, while lining up her Ibo
kinsmen as members of the committee. It is also very wrong and inappropriate to
bring in a former chairman of the service to be part of the committee for the
screening of a new chairman.
“And it is wrong for Mr. President to hand over
the project of appointing the chairman of the FIRS to the minister. Nigerians
would like to know the process that was arrived at and all the names that were
shortlisted for the interview that is to come up on March 3, 2013.
He added, “We don’t believe there is transparency
in the process, and we caution the President against the excessive ceding of
his own power to the finance minister. “The appointment of a person in such an important
position of the chairman of the FIRS should be done in a transparent manner and
with credibility. Such a process should be opened to Nigerians for scrutiny.”
Culled from the Punch
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