The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership (CACOL) has taken a swipe at former Zamfara State governor, Abdulaziz Yari, for allegedly assaulting an environmental officer enforcing the COVID-19 protocol at the nation’s airports.
CACOL, in a release issued by its Coordinator, Administration and Programmes, Tola Oresanwo on behalf of the organisation’s Executive Chairman, Mr. Debo Adeniran, the group expressed concern over reports that Yari allegedly assaulted an airport official who was doing what he was paid to do.”
It would be recalled that the airport officer, on Saturday at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano, tried to disinfect Yari’s luggage who was a passenger, but the ex-governor pushed him away, claiming that he was a very important personality.
Adeniran said: “We condemn the attitude of this former governor in its entirety. His action is reckless and height of irresponsibility. By his action, he has portrayed himself as an enemy of the state, going by the enormity of the effects of the COVID 19 pandemic on the country.
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“One would have expected a supposed ‘Very Important Personality’ to support and abide with all directives and protocols laid down to stem the tide of this pandemic.”
Adeniran lamentable that a man of Yari’s status would make nonsense of a well thought out arrangement and protocol aimed at curtailing the spread of the dreaded virus, adding that his attitude showed that many past and present public office holders see themselves as superman and demigods that should always be revered, adored and worshipped wherever they are.
The CACOL boss asked: “Can he try that absurdity in a foreign land? Little wonder then, the reason many of them are so bold to engage in various acts of corruption and acting as if they were above the law while holding public offices and forgetting that power is ephemeral.”
He continued: “Against this unfortunate aberration, we therefore call on Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria to put mechanism in place that would prevent reoccurrence of this unfortunate incidence and spell out sanctions that would be meted out to anyone who violate the COVID 19 protocols so as to serve as deterrent to others while calling on the former governor to publicly apologise for his action.”
