ABUJA (Sundiata Post) – A member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from Kaduna Central Senatorial District in the Senate, Senator Shehu Sani, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to reject the special invitation extended to him by the State Governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, to attend the forthcoming Kaduna Musical Festival.
Sani, in a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday, said that organising such a musical jamboree at this time showed that the Kaduna State Government has chosen to be insensitive to the plight of residents of the state, especially victims of the Boko Haram insurgency.
“I call on President Muhammadu Buhari to reject the invitation to attend the charade called Kaduna Music Festival. For every drum to beaten, for every song to be sung, and for every dance moves at the upcoming Kaduna Music Festival amounts to a mockery of the victims of the bloody insurgency in Northern Nigeria.
“It is a contradiction and morally reprehensible that the same Kaduna State Government that declared that it will no longer finance pilgrimage to Saudi and Jerusalem, and refused to sponsor Ramadan feeding for the poor and Tafsir, now have enough money to sponsor and host a musical jamboree,” he said.
“(The event) is an indecent and immoral proposition and an affront to Nigerians struggling to survive economic hardships and pervasive insecurity. It is shameful, disgraceful, irresponsible and utterly insensitive that at this sorrowful and mournful season of bloodshed and economic difficulties, the Kaduna State Government and so called ‘banks and the private sector’ have jointly decided to feast,make merry and dance on the graves of victims of Boko Haram armed insurgency in the North.
“It is callous and amounts to insouciance that at a time when thousands of civil servants and pensioners across the nation remain unpaid, multi million naira is about to be wasted in a musical event. Over 25 thousand innocent persons killed by insurgents, more thousands abducted and unaccounted for, over two million people displaced from their hamlets, homes, villages and towns in the north.
“Soldiers on the front line fighting are dying to restore peace and order in the north, the musical event is nothing other than playing the fiddle while Rome is on fire. The musical jamboree is nothing but a complete waste of public and even private resources that could have better be channeled to address other social and economic needs and emergencies of the nation,” he said.
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Sani noted with concern that the Ahmadu Bello Stadium, the proposed venue of the event, where millions of tax payers money would be wasted, has remained an uncompleted arena for the past 50 years.
