The newly
appointed Minister of Defence, Monsur Dan-Ali has been handed a 7-day ultimatum
by a human rights group in Nigeria, to bring out the controversial Senior
Secondary School Certificate (SSCE) of President Muhammadu Buhari.
President
Muhammadu Buhari’s Senior Secondary Certificate Exam (SSCE) has been a point of
debate.
The group
known as Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (G), called on the new
minister and the authority of the Nigeria Army to produce Buhari’s certificate.
According to
Daily Post, the rights group stipulated a 7-day period in which Dan-Ali must
make the certificate available.
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CHRSJ said
that a failure to make the certificate available within the 7-day window, will
mean that the Nigerian president is operating a government based on fallacy.
General Buhari
had before the election insisted that his controversial original Certificate
was with the authority of the Nigeria Army.
They said that
the failure of President Buhari to order the authority of Nigerian Army as
their Commander-in-Chief, to release his original Senior School Certificate,
which he used to be enlisted in the Army, would amount to “blatant lie of the
highest order from the acclaimed incorruptible President Buhari.”
Their stand on
the issue was disclosed in a statement issued and signed by the CHRSJ’s
executive chairman, Comrade Adeniyi Alimi Sulaiman.
He said:
“Following the recent statement credited to the new defence minister, Monsur
Dan-Ali over disappearance of the purported original Secondary School
Certificate of General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) in the custody of Nigeria Army,
which General Buhari claimed to be with the Country’s Military authority, prior
to the 2015 presidential election.
General Buhari
has become elected President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria now and he is
the Commander-in-Chief of armed forces, no Military authority will have
temerity to keep his Military Service file now and he should not hesitate to
order them to bring out his (Buhari) original controversial Secondary School
Certificate now within seven (7) days for doubting Thomas’ to see.”
“We believe
that if you are preaching equity, you must come with clean hands. Failure to
bring the Certificate out within the stipulated time would tantamount to the
country being governed by the un-certificated President and former Chief of
Army Staff, Lt. General Kenneth Minimah will be vindicated for saying the truth
that the controversial Buhari’s certificate was not with the authority of the
Nigeria Army then and new Defence Minister, Monsur Dan-Ali, will be
disappointed,” Comrade Adeniyi stressed.
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The CHRSJ
boss, noted that the group would not hesitate to write the international
communities as being empowered by the Freedom of Information Act, to prevail on
the authority of the Nigeria Army to bring out the controversial original
Secondary School Certificate of President Muhamadu Buhari.
He explained
that the human rights group would not allow the Nigeria Army and President
Muhammadu Buhari to lay down bad precedent in our democratic system.
It would be
recalled that there was some controversy over Buhari’s SSCE, prior to the
elections. The president had before the election insisted that his
controversial original certificate was with the authority of the Nigeria Army.
Mansur Dan-
Ali had revisited President Muhammadu Buhari’s certificate scandal on Friday,
November 13, criticising the immediate past chief of army staff, Lt-Gen Kenneth
Minimah (rtd) and the Nigerian Army under him for not showing respect for
Buhari during his WAEC certificate controversy before the 2015 general
election.
The human
rights group had in a statement made three-weeks ago, opined that the Nigerian
leader should know that Nigerians are not going to eat his integrity alone but
they need good administration with good economic course that would make life
acceptable for them.
This they said
to stress that five months after being inaugurated, the current administration
still had no economic blueprint.
Meanwhile, the
CHRSJ has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to
prosecute the new Ooni of Ife, Prince Adeyeye Ogunwusi, based on the
allegations of forgery.
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