The accusation was contained in a very public petition addressed to President Muhammad Buhari.
Signed by Joshua Yilnung and Halidu Gimba, the petition referred to as on the President to prevent the minister's open favoritism and localism within the ministry before they cause bigger inharmoniousness.
According to the petitioners, Dr. Fayemi, joined with ethnic affiliates within the ministry, is functioning on a plot to implicate Directors-General of Northern extraction within the ministry. The aim of the plot, explained the petitioners, is to make vacancies in their positions to be crammed by folks from the southwest, wherever the minister hails from.
"Indeed Nigerians of alternative extractions don't realize favor within the Ministry of Mines and Steel aside from southwesterners," alleged the petition. a
Specifically targeted, the petitioners claimed area unit four Directors-General (DGs) of parastatals of the Ministry. These parastatals area unit National science Development Centre, Jos; National Institute of Mines and Geo-Science, Jos; National Steel Raw Materials Exploration Agency, Kaduna; and Solid Minerals Development Fund, Abuja.
The petitioners suspect the minister of masterminding the crises in every of the parastatals in furtherance of his goal of exchange them with southwesterners. as an example, alleged the petition, the D-G of the Jos-based National science Development Centre has been battling with crisis at the middle. The crisis is presupposed to are instigated by Dr. Fayemi, WHO was aforementioned to possess pushed some workers to write down a petition containing seventeen workers' union problems against the metric weight unit, WHO wasn't even served the petition.
However, solely 3 of the problems were associated with the union, whereas the others were "frivolous" and were meant to be employed by Dr. Fayemi to get rid of the metric weight unit and replace him with a Yoruba man.
"Facts out there to US later discovered that the petitions ANd pressure by the union against the leadership of the metric weight unit was an orchestration by the minister and his cronies. "Notwithstanding the clear resolution of the problems, the DG, WHO is long delinquent for confirmation, is being hung on the road, whereas the minister is on a voyage of giving a dog a foul name so as to kill it," aforementioned the Northerners' petition.
It additional alleged that a prof of Yoruba extraction is being lined up to interchange the metric weight unit. The aforementioned prof, it absolutely was equally claimed, had told workers of the centre that it's the time of the southwest to run the show within the ministry. consequent in line to the metric weight unit, aforementioned the Northerners, is additionally a Yoruba man.
The metric weight unit of Solid Minerals Development Fund is additionally aforementioned to possess functioned in acting capability for a protracted time, with Fayemi refusing to verify her despite being competent. the opposite DGs area unit aforementioned to even have petitions against them, that were aggravated by Dr. Fayemi, WHO is claimed to be harassing them with security agencies.
"The management crises, localism and favoritism area unit particularization the ministry from its core objectives and creating a mockery of the anti-corruption fight by the gift administration and area unit injurious to the country's unity and national cohesion," the petitioners argued.
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