The latest executive pronouncement of paramount ruler is that of Murum Mbula, less than two months vacant seat – Social Commentator
The Periscope reporter
* We’ll love to celebrate Eid El-Adha with the legitimate district head – Elders
* We celebrate the success of Safina, our first class daughter, we lament over executive delay in the approval of appointment of our brother, the legitimate heir as the district head
* 10 days Qunut, other supplications continue, to be completed on Arafat day – Concerned youth
If there is anything that has greatly touched Jalingo-Maiha district, concerned citizens of Maiha local government, the teeming faithful in Mubi and beyond, is the continued executive delay in the approval of the appointment of district head of Jalingo-Maiha as the courts judgements declared.
The sage has since observed that what was not formally presented should be considered as jejune rather than being genuine.
“Recall that the governor has about two years ago, during his inaugural state executive meeting, lamented that it was an act of injustice delaying the implementation of the court order and directed that the appointment of the Emirate Council selected and presented and the court declared district head of Jalingo-Maiha must be approved without delay.
“Those who attended the the maiden SEC meeting said that the governor was lauded for taking the objectively bold stand.
“There was celebration here in Jalingo-Maiha and beyond. However, to the dismay of the citizenry, the governor was said to have been advised by other quarters to suspend the approval of appointment of district head till after the determination of the Appeal Court.
“The Appeal Court eventually passed her judgement about a year later on September 25, 2020, affirming the earlier High Court judgement delivered on July 13, 2018.
“What happened? Why the further delay in serving the appointment letter even after the Appeal Court determination? Where lies the justice defeating perceived sentiment as an interest?
“To our dismay, it is about one year with the determination of Appeal Court, the district head palace is still vacant in wait of the legitimate heir and there is nothing rotational leadership based on clans or any air about clannish clash in Jalingo-Maiha, since Bn Fodio,” the Sage would lament.
“The elders of the district jointly said that Jalingo-Maiha would love to have celebrated Eid El-Adha with the legitimate district head. We desire to enjoy the pomp and the pageantry around our monarchy.
“The Honourable Chairman, Idi Ali Amin asked us to go and continue with the preparation for coronation of our district head when the trending rumour had it that the governor has on June 12, made the second pronouncement, suggesting that he has approved the appointment of our district head.
“We waited in vain and are still waiting as we have waited for the past government to have God terminate its seeming anti Jalingo-Maiha and Michika monarchical tenure,” the elders would lament.
Yunusa Abubakar, a lecturer, critical thinker and social commentator, in his deconstruction, articulated that “the latest executive pronouncement of paramount traditional ruler in Adamawa state, northeast Nigeria, is that of Murum Mbula with less than two months vacant seat.
“However, over three years after the High Court judgement and close to ten months with the determination of Appeal Court, still lies a disappointing executive delay in the approval of appointment of the district head of Jalingo-Maiha. It gives reason to perceive a display of unmanaged unconscious bias”.
Concerned youths who were earlier by the security, persuaded to suspend the intended peace protest rally, considering the Covid-19 pandemic, pointing out also the possibility of the rally being hijacked by the chronic-know-nothing scallywags and sponsored anti legitimate monarchy anarchists, have some days previously, called for “a 10-day unrelenting Qunut and other supplications against undue perceived ethnic sentiment, hypocrisy and complacency to conspiracy aimed at disordering the monarchical order in Jalingo-Maiha, to be completed on Arafat day”.
“We’ve suspended our supplications, believing that there was actually the governor’s approval of appointment of our district head as courts declared, signed on June 12, being democracy day. It’s now over a month. The Jalingo-Maiha district palace is still vacant.
“By God, whoever is involved in the conspiracy to the delay in the executive approval of our district head, has manifold disappointments, frustrations and pains await him.