JNI FLAYS SELECTION OF NATIONAL CONFERENCE DELEGATES Written by Misbahu Bashir, Kaduna The Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI) yesterday said the selection of dele-gates to the National Conference was not handled in a free and fair manner as Muslims were denied adequate representation. Secretary General of JNI Dr. Khalid Abubakar Aliyu said at press conference in Kaduna that the process of selecting participants to the conference wasn’t done with fair representation which will affect the credibility of its outcome. He said Muslims were cheated in the process in spite of having the largest population as revealed by many international agencies. “Although democracy is a game of numbers, this has not been respected. For instance, While Muslims constitute the majority in the country, Christians, who by all acceptable records are not more than 40% of the country’s population, ironically constitute 62% of the total delegates. We find it as disrespect to the conscience of the Muslims that of the 20 delegates of the federal government, only six are Muslims. No Muslim is deemed fit to make the list of delegates from the Nigerian Economic summit. In fact in the representation of the security agencies Muslims have been so unimaginably short-changed with only one Muslim out of the six retired military and security personnel, one out of six retired security and NIA officers, and two out of delegates of the Association of Retired Police Officers. This means, of the 18 security experts belonging to these three groups, only 4 (22.2%) are Muslims. The question is, why is this serious short-changing of Muslims in these very sensitive groups?” “However, we want to assure everybody that the leadership of the Ummah (Muslims) is taking up the matter and will relentlessly continue to pursue it until the inequities are addressed”, he said. (Daily Trust)
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 08:30:40 +0000
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