{"id":188732,"date":"2022-05-18T10:14:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T09:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=188732"},"modified":"2022-05-18T10:14:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T09:14:55","slug":"ex-nimassa-dg-it-is-risky-to-shun-zoning-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/05\/18\/ex-nimassa-dg-it-is-risky-to-shun-zoning-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-NIMASSA DG: It is risky to shun zoning now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Ferdinand Agwu, a former Director-General of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency has cautioned against\u00a0the risk of shunning zoning in the country.<\/p>\n<p>This was made known by Agwu when\u00a0he and other Igbo elite paid a courtesy visit to the PUNCH Place, headquarters of The PUNCH Nigeria Limited, Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, shunning zoning in the 2023 presidential election signals exclusion of South-East from govenance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The former Senior Special Assistant to former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/05\/12\/ex-president-goodluck-jonathan-bags-appointment-at-european-council\/\">Goodluck Jonathan<\/a> said, \u201cToday, it is as if it is the South-East making the most agitation but when we exclude one, you lay the basis to exclude others. Some people today are being excluded yet society has said there should be inclusion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen did Dr Kalu Idika introduce Value Added Tax in 1986, it was an instrument to bridge the gap in revenue for the government. But, somebody said, \u201dNo, if you do VAT by indexation \u2013 collect and spend where it is collected \u2013 some people who don\u2019t have the economic resource would be excluded so they are going to be poorer. Now, we collect VAT in Lagos and spend it in Zamfara even though today we are mining gold in Zamfara and we are not spending it anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to take a step back and ask, \u201cHow have we handled this issue?\u201d is this just agitation by a region or are there some fundamental issues that are involved?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you exclude one person today, tomorrow you may be excluded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Agwu further said Nigeria has to develop a mechanism to deal with inclusion as destroying zoning now may put other regions at risk of exclusion in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat are the mechanisms our nation has developed to deal with inclusion? If we destroy this (zoning), are we not putting others at risk? When we destroy such a fundamental aspect of democracy, a clearly understood principle of inclusion, you invite Nigerians to exclude others. It is beyond a regional agitation. It is beyond a matter of turn-by-turn. What are the fundamental principles that the nation can grow with and be built on? Someone should snap up back to order. It is not just a PDP (Peoples Democratic Party), APC (All Progressives Congress) or politicians matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason why, on inception, Nigerians couldn\u2019t participate in the legislative council until the Clifford Constitution of 1922 was because Lord Lugard said it would be unfair for Nigerian natives to participate in the affairs of the state when the north doesn\u2019t have the means to attend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does this mean? Even the colonial masters understood inclusion. At the risk of excluding other Nigerians on affairs concerning them, they just left the idea. 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