Lawyer and human rights activist, Festus
Keyamo, has described those criticising President Muhammadu Buhari’s
appointments as “few jobless politicians.”
In a statement issued on Friday, Keyamo
stated that those politicians depended only on government appointments
as their means of livelihood.
He said, “The so-called ‘uproar’ over
the perceived ‘lopsided’ appointments made so far by President Buhari is
nothing but an orchestrated frustration of a few jobless politicians
who depend only on government appointments as their means of livelihood
and, of course, the noise of the latest opposition party in town.
“The
majority of Nigerians want to see good governance, pure and simple, and
care less about the ethnic origin of those appointed into positions.
“My worry is that the decade-long
general division of government positions into ‘juicy’ and ‘non-juicy’,
and the mentality that these few ‘juicy’ positions must be shared
equally among the major ethnic groups was nothing but a contraption of
the old order from which we have just liberated ourselves.”
Keyamo added that all government
appointments posed an equal challenge to those appointed as a call to
higher service of the country, saying that all public positions come
with an equal responsibility to be honest, forthright and dedicated.
According to him, describing some
positions as “juicy” and others as “non-juicy” is another way of
identifying positions that have enough money from which to steal from
those that are “dry.”
Therefore, any agitation from a section
of the country to get “juicy” positions, the rights activist said, was
only an agitation for their kinsmen to be appointed to steal enough from
which they would benefit.
He said, “I therefore unreservedly
condemn, in the strongest of terms, the so-called ‘uproar’ about ‘juicy
positions’ going only to a certain section of this country. All sections
of this country should be happy and content with whatever positions
that the President deems fit, at the end of the day, to give to their
kinsmen.
“After all, the President still has a
long way to go with appointments. He has not even filled up to five
percent of available positions. Please, let the President be.”
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