If you talk about transferring FAAN to Lagos because there are more airline activities in Lagos than in Abuja, then you should take the Ministry of Commerce to Onitsha or Kano because they have far more commercial activities – Chairman of Arewa Consultative Forum argues

Bashir Dalhatu, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), responded to the government’s move of some Federal Aviation Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) departments to Lagos.

During an interview on Arise TV news, Dalhatu suggested that if the rationale is airlines operating from Lagos, then the Ministry of Commerce should be relocated to commercial hubs like Onitsha, Anambra, or Kano.

He said; If you talk about transferring FAAN to Lagos because there are more airline activities in Lagos than in Abuja, then you should take the Ministry of Commerce to Onitsha or Kano because there are far more commercial activities in Onitsha and Kano than in AbujaYou should take the Ministry of Education or Agriculture to Makurdi where there is a lot of Agricultural activities and food production.

“You can distribute these Ministries to Locations according to the kind of activity you can identify.But that is not the intention or reason or purpose of establishing a Federal Capital Territory. It supposed to be in itself a symbol of unity, a symbol of togetherness of this country. The moment you start dismembering Ministries back to Lagos, first you are establishing a precedence which means next government that comes on and doesn’t happen to come from the South will now return them or transfer them back to Abuja  or Sokoto or Kano or Calabar.”