*Demands removal of FRIN DG
By; BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan
The Concern Group, a Human Rights body on Wednesday, called on President Bola Tinubu to review some of the late hour appointments by the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari.
In a statement signed by its President, Kelvin Onaolapo and General Secretary, Wasiu Olatiregun, the human rights group tasked President Tinubu to review the appointment of Dr. Zaccharria Yaduma as the Director-General (DG) for the Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN), Ibadan.
The group maintained that this became necessary in view of the need towards ensuring equity, justice and fair play, claiming that the appointment was made at the twilight of the former President Buhari’s administration describing it as warped and conscionable.
It stressed that the appointment of Dr Yaduma was wrong and not in tandem with the rules and regulations governing such appointment in an institute of FRIN nature, stating that his alleged incompetence for the job has reflected in his almost four months in office.
The Human Rights Group claimed that the appointment of Dr. Yaduma was outright illegality as it ran contrary to the law of Nigeria (FRIN ACT,2018) and complemented by the advertisement on the vacant post in some national dailies then which stated that an intending FRIN DG must be among others, a research professor within the institute and not even a professor from the university.
” To render the entire appointment process ineffectual according to the group, Dr. Yaduma did not even apply for the advertised post as required that “a prospective candidate must have applied for the post” despite his failing the earlier stated two conditions and to now discover that the institute currently boasts of six research professors with the required capacity and capability put into task logicality”, it said
Concern Group added, “It is an aberration and absurdity to disregard the law and willingly to destroy an existing organogram of the institute”.
” The leadership of a research institute is built on competence and we are requesting for the prompt removal of Dr. Zaccaharia Yaduma and appointment of a competent researcher within the institute”.
