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http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/weekly/index.php/new-news/17089-group-sends-bill-to-kano-assembly-for-registration-of-southerners

We’re yet to receive it, says Kano Assembly

Non-indigene groups condemn submission

A public bill has been sent to Kano State House of Assembly requesting it to it as law, asking that all Southerners residing or running businesses in the state be ed. A copy of the proposed bill, signed by Audu Bulama Bukari and Sunusi Umar Sadiq, the President and General Secretary of a group called Concerned Arewa Citizens was made available to Weekly Trust in Kano, and it stated that it is meant to protect the state against robbery, kidnapping and other criminal acts.

The group proposed the bill to be “enforced on the 1st day of August, 2014” and to be cited as “Kano State Registration of Southerners and Allied Matters Law, 2014.” Portions of the proposed bill read: “This bill is proposed for your consideration to protect our state against drugs and human trafficking, kidnappings, baby factories, armed robbery, importation of firearms, pipeline vandalism and other terrorist activities which have become prevalent in the South.”

The proposed bill gives the meaning of ‘Southerner’ as indigene of any of the seventeen (17) states in the South that may be Abia, Anambra, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Edo, Ekiti, Enugu, Imo, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo and Rivers. Some of the bill’s recommendations include the part that says: “No Southerner wishing to enter the boundaries of the State shall be permitted to do so unless he is duly ed with the appropriate authority.” Another reads: “Any Southerner ed in accordance with the foregoing provisions shall be issued with an Identity Card…”

The Speaker of the Kano State House of Assembly, Isyaku Ali Danja, was unavailable for comment. But spokesperson of the House, Kabiru Salisu, said they are yet to receive the bill. He told Weekly Trust yesterday that a group of lawyers have indicated their interest to sponsor a public bill on the registration of Southerners resident in Kano. “Yes, a group of lawyers have intimated us about their intention to sponsor the bill but they have not yet submitted it. The legislators will first study it before anything else,” he said.

Recently in the news, the group called the Igbo Leaders of Thought disclosed that it had articulated a “security awareness programme” which the South-East Governor’s Forum could work with in order to “secure Igboland from Boko Haram insurgents”. Portion of the group’s statement posed the following question: “Why should all the police commissioners posted to the South-East Fulani/Muslims? Are there no police commissioners from the Middle-Belt, South-South or South-West that could be posted [there]?”

It also demanded that the s Abubakar Adamu Mohamed of Enugu, Usuman Gwari of Anambra, Maigari Dikko of Ebonyi, Abdulmajid Ali of Imo and Adamu Ibrahim of Abia should be redeployed immediately. “As we feel uncomfortable with the officers in charge of the South-East, as Boko Haram boasts of plans to attack,” another part read.

Leaders of non-indigenes in Kano under the umbrella of Ethnic Traditional Leaders Forum yesterday kicked against the calls by the two groups, saying the status quo should be maintained. In a communiqué issued at the end of an emergency meeting, they said they are in total of the posting of non-natives as heads of security agencies in states.

The leaders, in the communiqué which was tly signed by Eze Ndigbo of Kano, Chief Boniface Ebekwe, Oba Yoruba of Kano, Abdullahi Saliu Olowo and Fred Akhigbe among others, said unity and peaceful co-existence is good for all.

When Weekly Trust ed for the position of the Kano State government on the issues, Commissioner of Information, Abubakar Nuhu Danburam, said he has travelled to Saudi Arabia for lesser Hajj. “I’m not in the position to comment,” he said over the phone.

However, in an interview earlier this week, Kano State Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso raised alarm that President Goodluck Jonathan is plotting to be Life President by using divide-and-rule tactics.

It can be recalled that last month there was a major flap about Northerners being asked to and carry I.D cards by Imo State authorities, a development which was put to rest after Governor Rochas Okorocha denied that was the case.

A public bill is a legislative bill affecting only a single person, group, or area and it is submitted by individuals or groups from the general public.

let the e-war start

Whatever that rocks their boat...that's none of my business.

We have a sitting president in the country and the idiotic isn't saying anything about this looming ethnic crisis?

GEJ must be a very useless MAN.

I like the way the country is heading, DEATH TO NIGERIA

Gamji007: We have a sitting president in the country and the idiotic isn't saying anything about this looming ethnic crisis?

GEJ must be a very useless MAN.

lol...this is day 3, i thought u guys were telling southerners to vacate the north in 2weeks, hw cm dz development now. Have u guys turned cowards?

I can't wait when every region will be incharge of its resources...then some region will end up as servants to the others.

Let the battle begin afterall
An eye for an eye will not make every go blind

This is a welcome development. The north should be brainstorming on how to develop it's huge mineral deposits, sheer erosion-free land mass and human capital for sustainability and economic prosperity post separation.
This is no time to allow the incursion of baby factories, kidnapping, granny ra.pe, ritualists, drug trafficking or armed robbery to mention a few, through the squatters in arewa land.

There was a country.This country is too complex for a civilian to rule, we need a civilian president with atleast a military background.GEJ is doing his best and apparently he cant give what he does not have.

So these guys are yet to send the bill to Kano assembly.

Every Northerner must be ed in the East to diminish any power base of BH in the East.


I also Southerners being ed in the North.

Which way Nigeria

make u na go sleep abeg...

Sounds useless, promotes division

prophetone: This is a welcome development. The north should be brainstorming on how to develop it's huge mineral deposits, sheer erosion-free land mass and human capital for sustainability and economic prosperity post separation.
This is no time to allow the incursion of baby factories, kidnapping, granny ra.pe, ritualists, drug trafficking or armed robbery to mention a few, through the squatters in arewa land.

Do all it takes to send back my brothers down south/christian north.

More population down south/christian north means a bigger market.

What do you think makes Lagos boom? Population.

Pls send them home, we need their economic input now that the Confab had increase the derivation to 18% and immunity for leaders removed.

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EasternLeopard: So these guys are yet to send the bill to Kano assembly.

Every Northerner must be ed in the East to diminish any power base of BH in the East.


I also Southerners being ed in the North.

that's one way to go....except that doing so will be a subtle but definite step towards nigeria's breakup

All thanks to Boko Haram and Jonathan for breaking Nigeria

Arewa republic is rising.

the game is getting sweeter. Any southerner still nursing to live his whole life in a place where the peoples retrogressive mindset is downright predictable must be digging his own grave intentionally. This is a clarion call for all southerners to head back home. 2015 poses a great danger.

So Nigerians can no longer live anywhere in Nigeria...

Watz goood for the goose is good for the gander!

"In kunga mutum yana yanda ya gadama toh ya samu wuri ne"



#.. Anyway it goes, mu en arewa...No frovlem faa

Its fair though. If other states can do that, and other acts which is directed towards "non indigenes" as far as "deportation", then I don't think people should complain abut this.

I think its about time that everyone is ed in every state, no matter if you are originally from elsewhere or not.

Its long overdue that the authorities should have more accurate knowledge of individuals which make up communities under their care/jurisdiction.

Nobody trusts Nobody

sarmiie:

that's one way to go....except that doing so will be a subtle but definite step towards nigeria's breakup

And to add to your point

Reduction of their economic activities.

I pity all those Northern petty traders based in the North.

Just as the inhabitants of Plateau Borno Yobe etc are suffering due to massive migration so would they.

This is glaring..exactly what happened to hutus and tutsis in rwanda.. I pray it does not escalate tho with the way its heading.. But one thing is crystal clear.. The people want out of nigeria

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lygn19:
lol...this is day 3, i thought u guys were telling southerners to vacate the north in 2weeks, hw cm dz development now. Have u guys turned cowards?

Take your tribal bigotry and stupidity out of my way.