Foundation Rejects Sayawa Chiefdom Headquarters At Namchi

The Majlisshura Unity Foundation successful Bauchi State has powerfully rejected the determination of Governor Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed to find the office of the recently created Sayawa Chiefdom astatine the Namchi country wrong Tafawa Balewa town.

The instauration described the determination arsenic a nonstop affront to the long-standing complaints, petitions, and agitations by the Fulani and different archetypal inhabitant tribes of the town, arsenic good arsenic a disregard for the ongoing ineligible proceedings connected the substance earlier a competent court.

In a powerfully worded petition addressed to the talker of the Bauchi State House of Assembly, Hon. Abubakar Y Sulaiman, the Foundation said it “Unequivocally opposes and rejects the siting of the projected Sayawa Chiefdom Headquarters astatine Mhrim/Namchi country wrong Tafawa Balewa town.”
The petition, signed by foundation’s president Sheikh Yusuf Abdullahi Jahun, emphasised that the determination contradicts existing laws governing the Chiefdom’s establishment.

It drew the attraction of the legislature to Section 9 of the Law No. 5 of 2011 for the instauration of Sayawa Chiefdom, which stated that “The office of the Chiefdom for the clip being shall beryllium sited astatine Martin Giji.”

The petition besides cited the Sayawa Chiefdom (Amendment) Law 2014, which intelligibly stipulates successful Subsection 9 that the office of the Sayawa Chiefdom shall beryllium Bogoro town.

The radical stressed that this proviso remains the clearest and astir peaceful ineligible model to resoluteness the matter.

The petitioners further reminded the Assembly that the contented remains a taxable of litigation earlier a tribunal of competent jurisdiction, and therefore, immoderate enactment taken earlier the last tribunal pronouncement would magnitude to contempt.

“As a loyal community, we volition proceed to support instrumentality and bid successful our domains, stay peaceful stakeholders, beforehand the payment and socio-economic well-being of our people, and cooperate with the contiguous medication for the involvement of improvement and peaceful coexistence,” the petition added.

LEADERSHIP Friday reports that the Bauchi State authorities has projected the instauration of 13 caller emirates, 2 chiefdoms, and 111 districts crossed the state. The connection is presently earlier the State House of Assembly, which is seeking nationalist input earlier it is passed into law.