The Concerned Northern Forum (CNF) has expressed concern about the arrest of Alh. Aminu Yaro Dogara, the Sarkin Hausawa of Lagos State and Chairman of the Council of Arewa Chiefs in Southern Nigeria, by the Department of State Services, DSS, for what it described as a “connection to the ongoing investigation of the suspended Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Godwin Emefiele.”
Mohammed Danlami, Chairman, Board of Trustee, CNF, in a statement said, “We demand the immediate and unconditional release of Alhaji Aminu Yaro Dogara, because the law is clear, charge the case to court and not continuous detention of an individual without any legal definition. It is also inhumane to arrest and continue to detain such an elderly man with couples if health challenges and keep him away from his family.”
He urged President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to be wary of banana peels and not bite the hands that feed him as the year 2027 approaches.
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He warned the Director-General of the DSS that no amount of desecration of Arewa tradition would make him stay longer than God’s appointed time on the seat he never dreamed of occupying, saying that it was God’s will for him to be called from retirement to occupy the seat, and that just as the Nigerian Customs Service has been returned to serving officers, so will the DSS.
The chairman also urged Arewa traditional rulers to rise up and fight to protect one of their own, stressing that his arrest is an assault and conspiracy against the Northern traditional institution.
He lamented, “The country is already polarised along ethnic line and regional segregation, arresting this important traditional figure will only lead to more harm than good and add more problems to the stock of existing ones.”
According to the statement, the arrest of Dogara is an affront to Arewa tradition and a desperate attempt to humiliate their leaders, which, if left unchallenged, will breed internal colonialism by a man they willingly and gladly voted for despite moral, historical, and integrity challenges. It was stated that they did so to preserve the country’s unity, and that their love for unity should not be misinterpreted as weakness.
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The statement added, “The arrest of Sarki’s wife is a brutality to the sacred Arewa culture, an innocent woman without any negative incidence in the public domain. On the other hand, the DG’s wife has had a negative public display, an incidence involving the now Governor of Kano State, Engineer Abba Kabir at the airport. If any woman need arresting, the DG should look inward and do the needful.”
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