BREAKING: Kaduna govt under fire over El-Rufai treatment, see full details

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Kaduna, Kaduna state - A prominent Islamic human rights organisation, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), on Saturday, August 17, accused the Kaduna state government led by Uba Sani of dragging back the northern region of Nigeria by a hundred years.

MURIC accused the Sani administration of pursuing 'a political vendetta' against former governor Nasir El-Rufai.

Specifically, the group criticised the Kaduna state government for allegedly ignoring "all the brilliant legal practitioners in the North" to pick a lawyer from the south-west region 'to prosecute El-Rufai'.

MURIC’s allegation was contained in a statement issued by its executive director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, obtained by Legit.ng.

Prof. Akintola and El-Rufai share a warm relationship.

MURIC's statement partly reads:

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“We are deeply perturbed by the pre-occupation of the Kaduna state government and its state assembly with the profiling of the immediate past governor of the state, Nasir El-Rufai.“Most 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.“This 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."

The group continued:

“Besides, 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.“On 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?"

Source: Legit.ng