A university Don Professor Yahaya Ibrahim Yero has challenged the constitutional provision of immunity for the president and governors and advocated an amendment to allow leaders face justice when the need arises.
Professor Yero made the advocacy Saturday while presenting a lecture during the inauguration of the new officials of the National Council of Muslim Youth Organization (NACOMYO), Bauchi state chapter.
Yero who said leaders should be made to be servants of their people, opined that on justice ground, any leader who is found to have abused his office should be dragged to court like other citizens.
Speaking on the qualities of leadership in Islam, Professor Yahaya Yero explained that in Islam there are four major qualities which include legal, personal and operational qualities which leaders should possess.
Also speaking, Professor Aminu Ahmad of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Bauchi urged leaders to be wary of their utterances which he observed make impact on the people.
Professor Aminu who said all men are technically leaders, explained that people will be required by Allah in the hereafter to give account of their leadership in their various homes and places of work.
Earlier, the National President of NACOMYO Malam Sani Suleman who delivered a lecture on the qualities of good leadership, said leadership and management are interconnected as they complement each other.
Malam Suleman said two key factors in leadership which include spiritual and practice variables should be taken into consideration by leaders in the course of their leadership.
In his remarks, the district head of Bauchi Alhaji Nuru Adamu Jumba has congratulated the new officials and urged them to justify the confidence reposed in them.
In a vote of thanks on behalf of the new officials, the new state Amir Professor Abubakar Sadiq Abdullahi called on Muslim youths in the state to come forward and join the group.
Professor Sadiq disclosed plans by the new leadership to open local government branches of the organization as part of effort to register more members.
