By Hassan Zaggi
Arewa Youth Network For Transparency, has called on security agencies to uncover the identity of the leader of the Civil Society Network on Economic and Social Advancement and investigate them.
In a statement signed by Comrade Musa Abdulkadir, the group wondered why the leader of a group calling for financial probity of government couldn’t come out boldly with his name.
Recall that the convener of the Civil Society Network on Economic and Social Advancement, identified as Abubakar Yari, had, during a press briefing last week, threatened to picket the headquarters of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited over continued fuel queue.
They also called for one million signatures to a petition urging the presidency to sack NNPC’s Group Chief Executive Officer, Mele Kyari, for alleged inability to manage the spate of fuel scarcity in Nigeria.
According to them, “the faceless civil society groups lack verifiable facts hence they resorted to hiding their identities. The NNPC and Mele Kyari has not rested on their oars in putting Nigeria in the good light in the world’s petroleum industry.
“We urge the Nigerian security architecture to investigate these groups. The President Bola Tinubu administration has shown capacity, hence we cannot as a group, sit still and watch some disgruntled element create smoke where there is no fire.”
Meanwhile, members of the coalition, Civil Society Network on Economic and Social Advancement, on Wednesday in Abuja, were struggling for their shares of protest money
The group members, who were seen in a hotel in Wuse 2, were at each other necks over how to share money among themselves.
Leaders of the group, as well as other members of the group, however, declined comment on what prompted the disagreement.
