A Road Map for Northern Nigeria

1. Restore inter-religious peace between Muslims and Christians
2. End sources of and all acts of terror
3. Abolishing the Almajiri system and enact laws to penalize same
4. Revive and recapitalize the joint Northern Company the NNDC and upgrade it to a Multinational company
5. An Agricultural master plan for exports of cash crops such as cotton
6. Right sizing and restructuring of educational institution to emphasize on sciences and tech
7. Investment in Solid minerals exploration and exportation
8. Massive reforestation program in the border states
9. A tourism master plan and massive investment in hospitality industry
10. Investment in solar Energy and hydroelectric power
11. Abolishing or reforming the Emirate system to adapt it to the realities of the 21st century
12. Investment in sports academies
13. Abolishing unnecessary religious censorship on film industry and massive investment on Kano film industry or Kannywood
14. Reaching out to China, Brazil, Singapore, South Korea, Malaysia on reviving Kano, Kaduna and Jos moribund industries
15. Resettling the Fulani cattle rearing and modernizing and streamlining the meat and leather Industry for domestic consumption and export
16. Internal revenue generation drive
17. Fiscal autonomy of state assemblies and local Government councils
18. A Dubai style international markets in the states bordering Abuja
19. State Governors must end pilfering public funds
20. Massive and free ICT education for pupils, Students and Youths
21. Reviving Lake Chad for fishing and oil exploration
22. Massive international media campaign to restore the good image of the region and to attract investment
23. Proactive civil society groups to challenge Bad governance, extremism and rights violations
24. Establishing six university of Medicine and free education for eligible students
25. Use of Mosques and Churches for Micro credit scheme
26. Setting up of a Northern Investment Bank
27. Ten year energy independence program by investing in and developing Bio fuels
28. Setting up of Northern Investment Forum offices in Dubai, China, India, Brazil and South Korea.

Shehu Sani
President
Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria

Shehu Sani addressing crowd

Kaduna Protest on Fuel Subsidy Day 5

Kaduna Protest:: Fuel Subsidy

Kaduna Protest on Fuel Subsidy Day 2

NLC/Civil Rights Congress Fuel Subsidy Removal Protest in Kaduna Day One

Kaduna State NLC/CRC Fuel Subsidy Removal Day 2


Kaduna State NLC/CRC Fuel Subsidy Removal Day 2

Dangers of 6years One-Term Limit

1-it will subjugate voters to an interminable fate in the hands of non performing leaders
2-it will deny voters the ability to limit the harm of a corrupt leader
3-it will promote predatory and unaccountable leadership
4-it will limit the choice of voters
5-it will stifle the development of electoral process
6-it will promote dictatorship at state and Federal level
7-it will terminally muzzle opposition parties and entrench one party rule
8-it will promote the philosophy of loot and go
9-it will entrench sectional and ethnic politics
10-it will entrench political arrogance
11-it will shorten the political life Span of a typical Nigerian
12-it will suffocate generational shift
13-it will spark off a constitutional crisis
14-it will overheat the polity and waste valuable time that should be devoted for development
15-it will entrench nepotism
16-it will entrench an absolute power syndrome
17-it will render the legislature at state level docile
18-it will further encourage violence as a means of ejecting bad leaders
19-it will formally induct the do or die ideology Into our electoral politics
20-it will bury fairness, justice and equity in governance.

Shehu Sani
President
Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria.

NIGERIA's BOKO HARAM: THE WAY FORWARD

CAUSES OF BOKO HARAM

1 - Repressive attack against the religious group by the Government in 2009.
2- The extra judicial killings of their Leader Muhammad Yusuf and others in 2009.
3- Exclusion of members of the Group by mainstream Islamic groups.
4- Failure of Governance in Borno and Bauchi states.
5- Federal government policy of appeasing militancy.
6- Inspiration from the success of the armed struggle in the Niger Delta.
7- Abject poverty and high rate of unemployment in the northern states.
8- Proliferation of arms in the north east.
9- Chadian civil war and illegal immigration.
10-Disconnect between elected and appointed leaders and the people.
11- Absence of data and intelligence about individuals and organizational links with foreign groups.
12- Absence of a rehabilitation program for religious fundamentalists.
13- Indolence and negligence of the northern states governors.
14-Misuse of security votes by states Governors.
15- The standoff in Somalia.
16- Unresolved Arab Israeli crisis.
17- Lack of true federalism.
18- Resistance of the political establishment to a national conference.
19- The collapse of public schools.
20- Active involvement of traditional leaders in politics.
21- Federal government increasing reliance on foreign security agencies.


SOLUTION TO BOKO HARAM

1- Creation of a Ministry for Peace and Ethinic and religious Harmony.
2- Compensation and formal apology to the family of the slain Boko Haram leader.
3- Release of the members of the groups in detention.
4- Setting up of a special joint federal and state fund for the rehabilitation and assistance to the Almajiri children.
5- Setting up of a presidential contact committee headed by respected and politically neutral Elder statesmen to meet with the group.
6- Massive economic aid and investment in particularly the north eastern states of Nigeria.
7- Mainstreaming all religious sects and groups in broader religious bodies.
8- Revival of public education.
9- Periodic consultation between local Government officials and local religious groups.
10- Equipping and funding preventive intelligence.
11-Support and funding for local groups involved in peace promotion in the vulnerable states.
12- Mopping up of arms and explosives.


Shehu Sani

31 CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO THE CREDIBILITY AND SUCCESS OF THE 2011 GENERAL ELECTIONS IN NIGERIA

1. Systematic buying of voters’ card by politicians.
2. Multiple voter registrations.
3. Faulty direct data capturing machines.
4. Replacement of candidates who won the primaries with those selected by the party.
5. Manipulation of religion: use of churches to campaign against Muslim candidates and the use of mosques to campaign against Christian candidates.
6. Using ‘security reasons’ excuses to deny campaign permit and venue to opposition candidates.
7. Lack of transparency in campaign finance and fund raising of the candidates.
8. Boko Haram armed insurgency in some parts of northern states.
9. Kidnapping of candidates in the South Eastern states.
10. Bombing of campaign offices and venues of candidates.
11. Politically motivated assassination of candidates.
12. Unfavorable publicity advantage given to ruling parties in state owned media houses.
13. Use of urban development control government agencies to pull down billboards of opposition candidates.
14. Arrest and detention of supporters of the opposition in some states on the ground of disturbance of public peace.
15. Threat and blackmailing of civil servants in the states to vote for the ruling party.
16. Impending litigations against the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC by candidates and parties.
17. The continued Jos ethno religious crisis.
18. The non implementation of the new minimum wage and the threat by the Nigerian Labor Congress to boycott the elections for that.
19. State governors’ formation and control of ‘joint security task force’.
20. Meddling and domineering influence of political Godfathers.
21. Removal of elected local government chairmen and their replacement with appointees to be used as campaign coordinators for incumbent governors.
22. Apparent public use of anti-corruption agencies against political opponents.
23. Unprofessional conduct of some private media houses.
24. Proliferation of arms
25. Inciting utterance by Niger-Delta elders and Northern elders.
26. Recruitment and use of rented crowd for political campaigns.
27. Unsolved militancy in the Niger-Delta.
28. Hisbah support for incumbent governors in Sharia implementing states.
29. Diversion and use of public funds by state governors for political campaigns.
30. Complacency and docility of state and federal legislatures.
31. Do or Die politics.