C/o 68 Ninzo
Street
Mahuta New Extension
Kaduna
29:01:2016
The Hon. Chief
Commissioner
Public Complaints Commission
(PCC)
Hon. Emmanuel
Ogbile
25 Aquiyi Ironsi Street
Maitama
PMB 68
Abuja
The
President
Federal Republic of
Nigeria
Muhammadu
Buhari
State House, Aso Rock
Villa
Abuja
The
Chairman
Federal Character Commission
(FCC)
Prof.
Shuaibu Oba AbdulRaheem, OFR
Plot 64, First Avenue off Shehu
Shagari Way
Central Business District,
Abuja
The
Registrar-General/CEO
Corporate Affairs Commission
(C.A.C)
Bello
Mahmud
Plot 420 Tigira Crescent off
Aguiyi Ironsi Street
Maitama,
Abuja
The Executive Governor of Kaduna
State
Nasiru
El-Rufai
Kaduna State Government
House
Polytechnic Road,
Kaduna
Dear Sirs,
PETITION ON GOVERNMENT, ITS
AGENCIES, THEIR COMPOSITION AND CONDUCT OF AFFAIRS WITH RESPECT TO DIVERSITY;
CONCERNING SECTION 14 OF THE 1999 CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF
NIGERIA: AGAINST THE KADUNA OFFICE OF THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS
COMMISSION.
With reference to the new
government’s professed commitment to change at the Federal, State and Local
Government levels in terms of transparency, accountability, adherence to the
rule of law and utmost respect for the principles enshrined in the constitution
of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (CFRN) 1999 (as amended); with confidence in
the professed commitment of the new government to governance based on principles
of democracy and social justice as captured in section 14(1) of the said
constitution, we the undersigned, do hereby present the following two-point
petition regarding the Kaduna office of the Corporate Affairs Commission
(C.A.C).
The two points which are
elucidated accordingly are:
1.
Apparent contravention of
section 14 of the constitution;
2.
A
pattern of arbitrariness, incompetence/negligence, shady and questionable
conduct; and consequently
3.
Remedies.
We address this petition jointly
to the PCC, President Muhammadu Buhari, the FCC, C.A.C and Governor Nasiru
El-Rufai because of its significance to the Nigerian State and
Polity.
1.
APPARENT CONTRAVENTION OF
SECTION 14 OF THE 1999 CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF
NIGERIA
In
view of the provisions of section 14 of the 1999 CFRN dealing with the
Government and People, we are convinced that there is a fundamental breach of
the section in the composition of the Kaduna C.A.C office, which affects its
conduct of affairs, specifically 14(3) which provides:
The composition of the government of the
federation or any of its agencies
and the conduct of its affairs shall
be carried-out in such a manner as to reflect the Federal Character of Nigeria
and the need to promote national unity, and also to command national loyalty,
thereby ensuring that there shall be no
predominance of persons from a few states or from a few ethnic or other
sectional groups in that government or in any of its agencies. [Emphasis added]
We the petitioners, as well as
several members of the public, have had numerous experiences of interface with
the Kaduna C.A.C office. These encounters have demonstrated the wisdom in the
stipulations of section 14. Sadly, it is clear to the public that the ‘composition’ of Kaduna C.A.C as a
federal government agency, as well as its ‘conduct of its affairs’, do not reflect
Federal Character requirements. The Kaduna office does not reflect or ‘recognise the diversity’ of Kaduna
State as a federating unit, should it be argued that Kaduna C.A.C is a state
office of a federal government agency. In this regard, the intent and letters of
section 14(4) are instructive:
The composition of the Government of a
state, a Local Government Council, or any of the agencies of such Government or
Council, and the conduct of the
affairs of the Government or Council or such agencies shall be carried-out
in such a manner as to recognise the
diversity of the people within its area of authority and the need to promote a
sense of belonging and loyalty among all the people of the federation. [Emphasis added].
Sirs, the intent and letters of
these provisions clearly stipulate that diversity should be reflected in the
composition of governments and their agencies such as the C.A.C. This affects
those sited at the Federal Capital Abuja, or wherever else there may be branch
offices. In the case of branch offices, the particular diversity of localities
served by them will be the subject of ‘federal character’ in ‘composition’ and ‘conduct of affairs’ as envisaged by the
constitution.
We hereby cry to you on behalf
of the diverse peoples of Kaduna State and Nigeria, alerting you that the Kaduna
C.A.C office does not come close to reflecting either federal character, or the
diversity of Kaduna State. Without prejudice to staff non-complicity, the office
clearly presents itself and appears to the general public as a government agency
composed of a predominance of persons ‘from a few ethnic or other sectional
group’, the ‘other sectional group’ in this case being
religious.
This situation has been noted by
members of the public who interface with, and transact business at the Kaduna
office, and this hardly augurs well for a state like Kaduna or any other state.
You would be aware of past and current claims and suspicions of an alleged
‘Islamisation Agenda’ in Nigeria, Kaduna State and other parts of the country,
levelled against even the present government which although probably unfounded,
would certainly gain credence through the public’s assessment and perception of
government’s treatment of section 14.
If this unfortunate reality is
an inherited legacy, then the government’s inaction on the matter so far since
May 2015, action subsequent to this petition, or reaction thereto, would
constitute either a tacit validation of this constitutional violation through a
sustenance of the status-quo, or an active promotion of policies violating the
principles of democracy, social justice and the rule of law. We hereby notify
government,
confident that this is neither the intent nor the plan of the government of
President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja, nor of Governor Nasiru El-Rufai in Kaduna,
nor of any other State Governor or government agency at any level
whatsoever.
For the records we shall give
facts on diversity, some of which you are aware of as subject of Judicial
Notice, and some of which is the outcome of cutting-edge recent research on
diversity in Kaduna State and Nigeria. The facts of which you are aware include
the existence of 23 Local Governments in Kaduna State and of several religious
professions: Traditional Religions, Christianity and Islam. Facts, of which you
may or may not be aware, are that besides the Nigerian citizens from other
states and other non-Nigerians resident in the state, Kaduna State is made-up of
74 ethnic groups, identities or nations (Nigeria comprising 706), a list of
which is attached to this petition as Appendix A for proper
elucidation and clarification. Of these, 27 are also found outside the state,
while at least two are either now sadly extinct, or near extinct.
Strictly speaking and with due
regard to proportionality, it will therefore be a breach of section 14 of the
constitution to have more than one person from a single Ethnic Group, where the
staff of the Kaduna C.A.C Office do not exceed 74 in number in terms of ethnic
composition, or from a single local government where they do not exceed 23 in
the case of a Local Government Area-based composition, or roughly a third of the
total staff in the case of (if at all) a religion-based composition mutatis mutandis (Unless there are no
qualified persons from other groups/sections, which is far from the case in
Kaduna State).
To avoid equivocation and
subject to clarification which we have sought from the Kaduna Zonal Head on 13
January 2016 and not been granted, it appears that the overwhelming majority, probably the
entire staff in Kaduna is ethnically sectional, and of Muslim religious
backgrounds. Our request for information
pursuant to the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2011 herein attached as
Appendix B, has received no response from the Kaduna C.A.C office within
7 days as required by section 1 of the FOI Act, itself an illegality! This
compositional anomaly could be the case with a Local Government-based
distribution also. Should the composition and distribution however be based on
the whole country, the situation is certainly worst in reflecting section 14
CFRN. From our experiences, this violation of section 14 in the Kaduna C.A.C
office leads to the following:
a.
crippling/slowing-down of
activities at the office at Muslim prayer times in terms of
religion;
b.
Overwhelming use of Hausa
language in the office in official verbal communication, in ways that negatively
prejudice diverse peoples unable, or unwilling to use
Hausa;
c.
public suspicion that the office
transacts business discriminatorily in view of (a) and
(b);
d.
a
sense of informality, personalisation, arbitrariness and substandard output by
the staff;
e.
Consequent on the foregoing, a
breeding of unhealthy and risky suspicion against the government and system
bordering on sectionalism. This in turn breeds alienation, distrust, disloyalty,
mistrust of government and other indicators which ultimately manifest as remote
causes of recurrent sectional conflict, as repeatedly captured in past
government White Papers on conflict in Kaduna State and Northern Nigeria from
1987 onwards. This government cannot want to have one or indeed any of its
agencies constituted and run in ways that sow the opposite of ‘loyalty’, ‘sense of belonging’ and confidence in
the government. These are the very objects of the constitutional provisions in
section 14.
2.
A PATTERN OF ARBITRARINESS,
INCOMPETENCE/NEGLIGENCE, SHADY AND QUESTIONABLE
CONDUCT
Drawing from our shared
experiences of interfacing with the Kaduna C.A.C, also drawing from members of
the public, and without prejudice to some individually committed staff of the
office, we have observed a pattern of arbitrariness, incompetence/negligence and
shady dealing. Arbitrariness pertains to front-line staff conduct,
incompetence/negligence pertains to the handling of business, while
shady/questionable conduct pertains to a suspected ‘parallel business’/cabal we
have partially investigated and uncovered. We elucidate accordingly.
a.
On Arbitrariness, we observed a number of
acts/conduct that some staff of the office engage in, including but not limited
to:
i. Indulgence in private affairs
while customers wait to be attended to;
ii. Giving wrong updates to
customers regarding the status of applications and documentation, including
instances of staff giving contradictory updates;
iii. Selective attention to customers
without regard to time and order of arrival;
iv. Conducting apparently private
businesses/affairs at the expense of waiting customers;
v. Giving incomplete guidance
and/or information regarding registration processes and other transactions of
the Corporate Affairs Commission;
vi. Imposition of conditions that
are neither imposed in other branches of the C.A.C, nor at the headquarters in
Abuja, such as procedural changes imposed in Kaduna within the course of 2015
regarding the completion of registration forms;
vii. Imposition of absurd
specifications such as the rejection of clear, legible and bold hand-written
completed pro-forma forms, and
demanding a particular form of manual type-written completion not commonly
available to the public; also the absence of electronic soft version forms that
could be completed in computers; and
viii. Frequent, casual and arbitrary
nullification of forms requiring a cumbersome re-purchase process at the Banks.
This involves travelling to pay into the
Treasury Single Account (TSA) with payment networks hardly available or
consistent, only for the forms to again be arbitrarily nullified by C.A.C staff
with casual contemptuous glee. We know the TSA means payment of actual amounts
with receipts, unlike shady patterns of the past. However, it appears the C.A.C
staff might be penalising the public for the introduction of the
TSA.
b.
On
incompetence/negligence, we observed the
following:
i. A record of reserving names in
categories other than those indicated by customers;
ii. A pattern of dealing with name
reservation applications in ways that suggest either insufficient education
regarding section 30 of the Companies and Allied Matters Act Cap C.20 LFN 2004,
or pure impunity. This concerns the Abuja office as well;
iii. A contradictory pattern of
giving feedback on issues to be rectified in respect of particular applications,
whereby other issues are raised after earlier ones are rectified, and also
raising issues with rectifications requiring what clients originally
indicated;
iv.
A
pattern of giving either no information regarding guidance regulations/rules
held by the C.A.C, or giving partial, incomplete and sometimes misleading
guidance; and
v.
Failure to distribute and/or
sell copies of relevant guidance notes/regulations not otherwise available to
the public in ways obtainable commonly or conventionally.
c.
On shady/questionable
conduct, we
conducted a private investigation and discovered a network involving staff of
the Kaduna office C.A.C on the one hand, and a certain nameless ‘Business
Centre’ with possible links at the Abuja Corporate Headquarters. In this regard,
we observed that staff of the Kaduna office place what could be characterised as
‘unwarranted obstacles’ on the path of members of the public, and C.A.C
accredited professionals seeking to transact with the Kaduna office. They
simultaneously direct these persons to said ‘Business Centre’. This pattern
appears shady and suspicious, especially when viewed against the background of
the Kaduna Office staff themselves directing accredited professionals and
members of the public to this ‘Business Centre’.
To seek the subjugation of
professionals to quacks in this manner appears suspect to us, and calls for an
investigation as to the connections (whether financial or otherwise) existing
within the network, and involving C.A.C staff.
To elucidate on this network,
our sources visited the ‘Business Centre’ in the course of our investigations,
to seek a deeper understanding regarding why the Kaduna C.A.C staff would place
obstacles on the path of the public and directly refer them to the business
centre. Among our findings, we discovered that the business centre is located
within the premises of the Kaduna State Library Board, opposite the former site
of the Kaduna C.A.C office where it was located before moving to its present
site. We gathered from those in the office that they guarantee processing any
business with the C.A.C on the basis of ‘certain links’ they have with the C.A.C
in Kaduna and Abuja. The persons at the business centre claimed to have direct
access to telephone numbers of the ‘deciding staff’ in the Kaduna C.A.C Office,
and that any arbitrary procedural changes (difficulties) imposed by the office
in registration processes are communicated to them so as to guarantee successful
business. They were boastful enough to claim that such changes were introduced
in the Kaduna office (and not other C.A.C offices) on two occasions in 2015
alone, and only they could guarantee successful transactions of business with
the Kaduna office of the C.A.C for a while. This whole scenario leaves us
wondering what else may be happening.
As professionals, we also
discovered that all the ‘Business Centre’ requires from clients are payment,
signatures, passport photographs and ID cards. In other words, the content
and/or substance of organisations seeking to be registered is determined by the
business centre! This is a mockery of Company Law/Practice with regard to what
is legal, reasonable and right.
3.
REMEDIES
This petition calls for further
state vigilance and procedural relevance of agencies, because the patterns
indicated herein alone could discourage Foreign Direct Investment, international
cooperation, AID and support involving registered organisations and government
itself. It borders on transparency, accountability, social justice, competence
and democratic governance!
In view of the points raised and
elucidated, we accordingly demand the following remedies, THAT;
i. the present composition of the
Kaduna C.A.C be forthwith disbanded, dispersed with regard to federal character,
and timely reconfigured from top to bottom to accord
with the intent of section 14(3) and (4) of the 1999 CFRN (as amended) as far as
possible;
ii. the new staff constituting the
Kaduna Office be properly re-trained to be proficient, professional
and conscious of the C.A.C as a government agency created to serve the sovereign
and diverse peoples and public of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria;
iii. If the government deems it
necessary for
the sanity of Kaduna C.A.C, then an investigation be launched into the
activities of the relevant staff of the office to determine their complicity in
the network mentioned, and for further necessary action;
iv.
a ‘Federal Character Task Force’
(FCTF) be set-up with a mandate to examine all governments, and
all government agencies across the Federal Republic of Nigeria, with the power
to enforce section 14 of the constitution as a matter of
policy;
v.
the composition of the proposed
FCTF be drawn from diverse ethnic and other sectional groups, bodies and sectors
led by constitutionalists. The bodies should especially
include staff from agencies charged with duties related to the FCTF’s. These include the FCC for
federal character, and the PCC for public complaints. The priority and need to
sanitise the FCC, PCC and C.A.C should precede others, since they cannot give
what they lack.
In concluding, we aver that it
is our confidence in some of the dispositions of the present government that
impels us to honour the government with this petition. This also constitutes a
consultancy service on understanding and applying constitutional guarantees of
inclusivity, and on running a diverse and pluralistic state in ways that inspire
a ‘sense of belonging’, ‘loyalty’ and confidence in government
and its institutions. It is also a consultancy in the very art of democratic, as
opposed to autocratic and arbitrary governance.
Yours,
faithfully,
s/n.
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Name
|
Designation
|
Signature
|
1.
|
Dr. Kajit J Bagu (John
Paul)
LL.B (ABU), BL
(Lagos), LL.M (Warwick), PhD (Edinburgh).
|
Legal Practitioner, Researcher
and Consultant.
|
Signed
|
2.
|
Reuben
Buhari
PGD
|
Media
Consultant
|
Signed
|
3.
|
Clement N.
Kuliyak
B.Sc.,
PCCPPA
|
North-West
Regional Coordinator of the Centre for Crisis Prevention & Peace
Advocacy
|
Signed
|
4.
|
Augustina
Joshua
BL,
LL.B
|
Legal
Practitioner
|
signed
|
5.
|
Auta, Grace
Sim
LL.B, BL,
MASSA
|
Legal
Practitioner
|
signed
|
6.
|
Tunde
Taiwo
LL.B,
BL
|
Solicitor
|
signed
|
7.
|
Lilian Ene Oga
Esq.
LL.B, BL, LL.M
(Aberdeen)
|
Legal
Practitioner
|
signed
|
8.
|
Florence T. Hassan
Esq.
LL.B (ABU), BL
(Bayelsa)
|
Legal
Practitioner
|
signed
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9.
|
Kim Magaji
LL.B,
BL
|
Legal
Practitioner
|
signed
|
10.
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John Joseph
Amako
M.SC.
|
Teacher
|
signed
|
11.
|
Sambo Dawi
LL.B,
BL
|
Legal
Practitioner
|
signed
|
12.
|
Linda Yori
BA
French
|
Events
Manager
|
signed
|
13.
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Bonet
Emmanuel
|
Executive
Director,
AID
Foundation
|
Signed
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14.
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Marwan
Haruna
LL.B,
BL
|
Legal
Practitioner
|
Signed
|
For ourselves and citizens
concerned about representative, inclusive and competent
governance.
APPENDIX A
ETHNIC GROUPS, NATIONS OR
IDENTITIES IN KADUNA STATE
S/N
|
NAMES OF ETHNIC
GROUPS, NATIONS OR IDENTITIES IN VARIOS VERSIONS AS THEY SELF-IDENTIFY AND AS
THEY ARE IDENTIFIED BY ‘OUTSIDERS’.
|
DEMOGRAPHY BASED
ON AVAILABLE DATA, OFTEN FAR OUTDATED
|
1
|
Ajiya
(Ajuli)
|
Three
Towns
|
2
|
Ajuwa
(Ajuwa-Ajegha)
|
Five
towns
|
3
|
Timap/Amap
(Amo)
|
3,550
(1950)
|
4
|
Anib/Aninib
(Kanufi/Akpurkpod)
|
2,000 (2006
est.)
|
5
|
Ize/uner
iZe/Beze (Ashe) in Kaduna
and Nassarawa
|
35,000
(1972)
|
6
|
Ten/Etien
(Ganawuri/Aten) in Kaduna and
Plateau
|
40,000
(1988)
|
7
|
Tsam/Atsam
(Chawai/Chawe)
|
30,000
(1972)
|
8
|
Bwaare/Gboare/Bwatiye
(Bachama) in Kaduna and
Adamawa (Numan and Guyuk)
|
20,000
(1963)
|
9
|
Ayu
|
2,642
(1934)
|
10
|
Worom/Berom/Birom
(Afango, Akuut, Baho, Gbang/Kibbo/Kibo/Kibbun/Kibyen) in Kaduna and
Plateau
|
200,000 (1985,
SIL)
|
11
|
Bina
(Binawa/Bogana)
|
2,000
(1973)
|
12
|
Bacinda/Cinda
(Tucinda/Jinda/Majinda) in Kaduna
and Niger
|
na
|
13
|
Buregi/Regi
(Turegi) in
Kaduna and Niger
|
na
|
14
|
Bukuki/Kuki
(Tukuki/Kamuku)
in Kaduna and Niger
|
na
|
15
|
Bakwacika/Kwacika
|
Almost
certainly extinct (Blench 2008)
|
16
|
Tocipu/Cicimu
(Cipu/Acipa/Achipa/Achipawa) in
Kaduna, Kebbi and Niger
|
3600
(1949)
|
17
|
Chori
(Cori)
|
A village and
hamlets (19XX)
|
18
|
Dungu
(Dungi/Dingi/Dwingi/Dunjawa)
|
310
(1949)
|
19
|
Gbetsu
(Katanza)
|
About six
villages, 5,000 (2008)
|
20
|
Igbiri/Agari/Agbiri/Gbiri
(Gura/Gure/Guri; Gbiri-Niragu cluster)
|
5,000 (1952) in
cluster
|
21
|
Igbagyi/Gbagye
(Gbagyi/Gwari; East Gwari/Gwari Matai) and Gbari (Gwari Yamma/West Gwari) in
Kaduna, Niger, Nassarawa, FCT
|
200,000
(1952)
|
22
|
unGwara/aGwara
(Gwara/Gora) unGwara/aGwara (Gwara/Gora)
|
Five villages
(2012)
|
23
|
Gong/Gyong
(Gwong/Kagoma)
|
6,250
(1934)
|
24
|
Bahaushee/Hausawa
(Hausa/Haussa/Haoussa/Arewa; Abakwariga,
Mgbakpa/Habe/Kado)
Dialects: Kano,
Katagum, Hedeja, Sokoto, Gobirawa, Adarawa, Kebbawa, Zamfarawa, Katsina,
Zazzau in Kaduna, Katsina, Bauchi, Kano,
Sokoto, Kebbi, Zamfara.
|
5,700,000 (1952)
all included
|
25
|
Pullo/Fulbe
(Fulfulde/Fillanci/Filatanci/Futa/Fulani/Filani/Rumada) being the most recent to
migrate into the ‘Nigeria’ area between the 16h and 20th century
(Barth, 1854; Temple, 1919) from Upper Senegal, Faluga and Fouta Jallon, now
scattered across West-Central Africa in small groups.
|
3,000,000 (1952) all included
|
26
|
Hyam
cluster/Ham/Hum (Cluster includes Kwyeny, Yaat, Saik, Dzar, Hyam of Nok)
(Jaba)
|
43,000
(n.d.)
|
27
|
Udu/Adun/Idu
(Idun) in Kaduna,
Nassarawa
|
21 villages
(2008)
|
28
|
Ikryo/a-kro
(West Kuturmi)
|
Two
villages
|
29
|
Eneji/anare/ekhwa
(Ekhwa/Ahua/Gora-Ankwa)
|
towns Gora,
Ankwa
|
30
|
Baju/Bajju/Kajju
(Jju)
|
26,600 (1949)
possibly 200,000 (1984 SIL Intl.)
|
31
|
Edra/Andara/Adara
(with Enezhe)
|
Five
towns
|
32
|
Kaivi/Kaibi
|
650
(1949)
|
33
|
Angan
(Kamantan/Kamanton)
|
10,000
(1972)
|
34
|
Kinuku/Kinugu/Kinuka
|
460
(1949)
|
35
|
Kono/Konu/Kwono
|
1,550
(1949)
|
36
|
Bekulu/Ankulu
(Kulu/Ikolu/Ikulu)
|
6,000
(1949)
|
37
|
Nandu
(Nandu-Nyeng-Shakara cluster)
|
na
|
38
|
Nincut
(Aboro)
|
8 villages 5,000
(2003 est.)
|
39
|
Ninkyop
(Kaningkwom/Kaninkon) (Ninkyop-Nindem cluster)
|
na
|
40
|
Ningye
(Ningeshe)
|
< 5,000
(2003)
|
41
|
Ninka
(Sanga)
|
< 5,000
(2005)
|
42
|
ibiro/obiro
(Obiro/West Kuturmi)
|
Antara
village
|
43
|
Abisi/Bisi
(Piti/Pitti)
|
1,600
(1950)
|
44
|
Arumaruma/Turuma
(Ruma/Ruruma)
|
2,200
(1948)
|
45
|
Sambe*
near extinct
|
2
(2005)
|
46
|
Samang/Shamang
|
na
|
47
|
San/u-San/aSan/Shang/Kushampa
|
Two kushampa
settlements
|
48
|
Shuwa-Zamani
|
Saminaka
|
49
|
Surubu/Srubu/Zurubu
(Fiti)
|
1,950
(1948)
|
50
|
uTinor/baTinor/iTinor
(Tinor) (Tinor-Myamya cluster)
|
35,000 including
Ashe (1972); Tinor, seven villages
|
51
|
Tutumi
(Tumi)
|
635
(1949)
|
52
|
Atyap/Atyab
(Kataf/Katab/Katap) (Tyap cluster)
|
Est. more than
130,000 (1990)
|
53
|
Agwolok/Agwot
(Gworok/Aguro/Agolok/Kagoro)
|
9,300
(1949)
|
54
|
Atakar/Atakat/Attaka/Attakar/Takat
|
5,000
(1949)
|
55
|
Asholio/Asolio/Osholio/Aholio
(Sholio/Marwa/Morwa/Moroa/Marawa/)
|
5,700
(1949)
|
56
|
Kacicere/Aticherak
|
700
(1949)
|
57
|
Kafancan/Fantuan/Kafanchan/Kpashan
|
970
(1934)
|
58
|
Avono/Kivono
(Vono/Kibolo/Kiwollo/Kiballo
|
335 (1949); 500
(1973 SIL Intl.)
|
59
|
Gwandara
(Karashi/Koro/KyanKyar/Toni/Gitata/Nimbia-Basa) in Kaduna, Nassarawa, Niger,
FCT
|
30,000 (1973 SIL
Intl.)
|
60
|
Fobur/Fobor
(Izere/Izarek/Zarek cluster; Afizere/Fizere/Faserek/Afizarek/Afusare/Fezere;
Jarawa) in Kaduna, Bauchi,
Plateau
|
30,000 for
cluster (1977); less than 15,000 for Fobur (1991)
|
61
|
unaBoze/anaBoze/eBoze
(Boze/Buji) (Jere Cluster)
in Kaduna,
Plateau, Bauchi
|
23,000 in
cluster (1972); three dialects eGorong (2,500?), eKeken (3,000) and eFiru
(1,5000?)- 2003 estimates- with more ethnic Boze than speakers indicated
above
|
62
|
Anazele/Azelle/Ezelle
(Jere) in Kaduna,
Plateau
|
4,500
(1936)
|
63
|
Eda/Anda/Ada
(Eda/Adara; Kadara cluster) in
Kaduna, Niger
|
40,000
(1972)
|
64
|
Akurumi/Tikurumi
(Kurama)
in Kaduna, Kano
|
11,300
(1949)
|
65
|
Meda (Mada)
in Kaduna, Nassarawa
|
30,000
(1973)
|
66
|
Amala/Tumala
(Mala/Rumaya/Rumaiya)
|
1,800
(1948)
|
67
|
Ninzo
(Ninzam/Gbhu) in
Kaduna, Nassarawa
|
6,999 (1934),
35,000 (1973 SIL Intl.), 50,000 (2003)
|
68
|
Numbu
(Numbu-Gbantu-Nunku-Numana cluster)
in Kaduna, Nassarawa
|
11,000 (1922)
?3,818 (1934)?
|
69
|
Gbantu
(Gwanto) in
Kaduna, Nassarawa
|
na
|
70
|
Nunku, 3
dilects-Nunku, Nunkucu and Nicok
in Kaduna, Nassarawa
|
na
|
71
|
Numana
in Kaduna, Nassarawa
|
Existence in
doubt* as per Roger Blench 2012
|
72
|
Nyankpa/Nnankpa/Anankpa
(Yasgua/Yeskwa) in Kaduna,
Nassarawa
|
13,000
(1973)
|
73
|
yirigwe/rigwe
(Rigwe/Aregwe/Irigwe) in
Kaduna, Plateau
|
40,000
(1985)
|
74
|
onoSeni/anaSeni/tiSeni
(Sheni/Shani/Shaini); (Sheni-Ziriya-Kere cluster) in Kaduna, ..
Bauchi
|
1,500 (2003), 6
fluent speakers
|
NB
Dr. Kajit J Bagu (John Paul)
compiled and articulated the research aspects of this petition and data relative
to diversity, constitutional guarantees of inclusivity and conflict. He is a
researcher on justice, constitutionalism, plurality and peacebuilding. His PhD
Thesis (Edinburgh 2014) is titled ‘Cognitive Justice, Plurinational
Constitutionalism and Postcolonial Peacebuilding: A Constitutional Philosophy on
Identity; the Global South, Central Nigeria.’
Twitter account:
@jpkajit
APPENDIX
B
NB:
The Freedom of information Act 2011 provides:
Section
1 (1)
Notwithstanding anything contained in any other Act, law or regulation, the
right of any person to access or request information, whether or not contained
in any written form, which is in the custody or possession of any public
official, agency or institution howsoever described, is established. (2) An
applicant under this Act needs not demonstrate any specific interest in the
information being applied for. Section 2
(3)(c)(vi): (3) A public institution shall cause to be published in
accordance with subsection 4 of this section, the following information- (c) a
description of documents containing final opinions including concurring and
dissenting opinions as well as orders made in the adjudication of cases; (vi)
the names, salaries, titles and dates of employment of all employees and
officers of the institution. Section
2(4): A public institution shall ensure that information referred to in this
section is widely disseminated and made readily available to members of the
public through various means, including print, electronic and online sources,
and at the offices of such public institutions. Section 4: Where information is applied
for under this Act the public institution to which the application is made
shall, subject to sections 6, 7 and 8 of this Act, within 7 days after the
application is received- (i) make the information available to the applicant,
(ii) where the public institution considers that the application should be
denied, the institution shall give written notice to the applicant that access
to all or part of the information will not be granted, stating reasons for the
denial, and the section of this Act under which the denial is made.
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