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Islamic Group Slams Kaduna Govt For Hiring Southwest Lawyer, Falana To Prosecute El-Rufai
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The Islamic rights group, MURIC is furious over the plans by the Kaduna State Government to hire Femi Falana to prosecute former Gov Nasir El-Rufai, the man the group claims turned Kaduna into London but is, however, mum on the allegations of misappropriation levelled against him.
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has accused the Kaduna State Government (KDSG) of dragging the North back by a hundred years by pursuing political vendetta against former governor Nasir El-Rufai and particularly in hiring Femi Falana to prosecute the immediate past governor.
The group specifically slammed KDSG for ignoring all the brilliant legal practitioners in the North to pick a lawyer from the South-West for the purpose of prosecuting El-Rufai.
MURICās allegation was contained in a statement issued on Saturday, 17th August, 2024 by its Executive Director, Professor Ishaq Akintola.
The statement reads:
āWe are deeply perturbed by the pre-occupation of the Kaduna State Government (KDSG) and its state assembly with the profiling of the immediate past governor of the state, Nasir El-Rufai.
āMost disturbing is the manner the state government ignored all the brilliant minds in the legal profession in the whole North to pick a human rights lawyer from the South-West for the purpose of prosecuting El-Rufai (https://www.naijanews.com/2024/07/18/kaduna-assembly-hires-femi-falana-to-prosecute-el-rufai-for-mega-corruption/).
Hiring Falana to prosecute El-Rufai is a slap on Northern lawyers
āThis is a slap in the face of not only that of legal practitioners in the North but the entire Northern population. It also constitutes a colossal waste of resources as well as an insult and a disservice to the whole North.
āBesides, this action runs counter to the spirit of recognition for and pride in Northern assets, its people, culture and values as envisioned and enunciated by great Northern leaders like Alhaji Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto, Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and the political maestro of the North, Alhaji Aminu Kano.
āOn our fingers, we can count no less than a dozen legal luminaries nulli secundus of Northern origin. On what ground were these found unqualified and ineligible? What parameter did KDSG use to pick its prosecutor from a place so far away from the area of jurisdiction of this case?
āWe are miffed that at a time Muslims in the North and South-West have built a bridge across the Niger and actualized the dream of our past heroes, KDSG has deemed it fit to attempt to rubbish the main drammatis personae thereby dragging the North back by a hundred years.
āWe put it to the state governor and the state assembly that this latest move was motivated by a blind desperation to nail an innocent man, Nasir El-Rufai, the man who turned Kaduna to London.
āThis is not what the North deserves. The stereotyping, prosecution and persecution of El-Rufai is not in the interest of the North. It smirks of a desertification of political acumen. We therefore advise the state government to stop stirring the hornetās nest. Leave El-Rufai alone.ā
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