A press statement signed by the Coordinator, Ismail Mustapha Soba, and made available to TheNewsGuru noted that job opportunities would have assisted in tackling the problem of insecurity that has plagued the state and the north in general.
The group said there were high expectations from Ali who should have used his position to create job opportunities for the teeming unemployed youths, noting that he had failed them.
They therefore singled out Ali who they alleged has done nothing tangible to create job opportunities for them after working and supporting the All Progressives Congress to win the 2015 elections.
They recalled that they were mobilised to join the nationwide 2012 fuel subsidy protest in Kaduna that later led to the downfall of former President Goodluck Jonathan’s government.
They noted further, “When we were invited for the protest alongside Late Former Governor of defunct Kaduna, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, former lawmaker, Senator Shehu and Col. Hameed Ali himself with several prominent Nigerians and we did so with hope that our unemployment problem and the disturbing security challenges facing the North would be history.”
According to the group, since Ali was appointed the Comptroller General of Customs by the President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015, he was yet to employ any known Kaduna youth.
They therefore challenged Ali to make public the state-by-state employment records to prove them wrong.
“We stand to be corrected, from our records and information gathered, he has never employed any serious person in Kaduna into customs, he just turned to Bauchi State.
“He should know that part of the reasons Buhari appointed him as the Comptroller-General was to tackle chronic problems in service, including personnel shortage,” it added
While stressing that personnel shortage would be solved with the recruitment of thousands of personnel for active duty, the group noted: “It was expected that he visits Kaduna regularly to feel the pulse of the ordinary citizens, as we speak, he has not found time to meet the youths that labour for Buhari’s election victory.
“Even when a list of youths was compiled to assist them into Customs, he didn’t even the see the person, who went to submit it talkless of taking action.
“If nothing is done to make amends, we would be left with no option to mobilise for his sack,” the group further threatened.
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