The Chairman of the House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Mr Benjamin Kalu, who stated this in an interview with one of our correspondents, said the North had not fully taken advantage of the quota system to develop itself.
He listed problems facing the North as poverty, millions of out-of-school children, malnutrition, drug abuse, Almajiri, and the Boko Haram insurgency. “The rest of the country cannot be investing, educating its children, producing graduates and then they watch us, they can’t get jobs because they come from the wrong state when we have not invested in the future of our own children.
Kalu stated, “I agree with him . If you access any opportunity that you are not qualified for, you are under-developing yourself and the country. One, you will not be able to fulfil the demands of that office. Two, you will deny those who are supposed to benefit from that office, what they are entitled to.”
The CNG spokesman said although the coalition agreed with the submission of the Emir of Kano, he noted the monarch was part of the elite who contributed to the problem of the region. The CNG spokesman noted that the coalition was in support of any arrangement that competence and capacity were the main requirements for national service and not religion, region or ethnicity.
“The North as far as the CNG is concerned must begin to come to terms with the unfolding global reality that it would no longer be feasible to benefit by merely clinging to region, religion or clan and take steps for ensuring competitiveness within the larger construct of a united Nigerian federation.
According to the coalition, Western and Eastern Nigeria have a similar socioeconomic structure that emphasises education and entrepreneurship. The CNG stated, “We must stop blaming other people for our travails and seize our destiny by promoting a socio-cultural revolution that would ensure that every child is employable or self-employed through education, vocational training and skill acquisition programmes.
He said, “The Sarkin Kano has again spoken on one of the areas which should provide the foundations of a rediscovery for the North.
Go on
Let’s start from the office of the President.
It is not late. There are night schools. I have some Igbo friends who are mechanics and traders they enrolled in night school here in PH some years ago. Some are in the university. This is no time for apportioning blames. No age limit for education.
I truly hope they listen.
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