BUHARI, SANUSI, ELRUFAI CELEBRATE IN KANO AS NATION and c.b.n MOURNS DANA VICTIMS!

CBN releases names of victims

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, today, released the names its staff involved in the ill-fated Dana plane crash on Sunday at Iju/Ishaga area of Lagos State. In a release by CBN which was made available to Vanguard through e-mail, the victims are: Amiaka Raphael.O (Senior Manager), Antonia Attuh (Senior Manager), Bamaiyi Adamu (Senior Supervisor).

Others include; Falmata Kur Mohammed (Assisstant Director), Ibrahim Yusuf (Principal Manager),Kim E Norris (Special Adviser to the CBN Governor), Mutihir I.I (Deputy Manager), Samuel Eventus Mbong (Manager)
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While the bodies of eight of his staff who were on their way to Lagos for a conference are yet to be identified or are still in the morgue,the Central Bank of Nigeria Govenor Lamido Sanusi went ahead with his elaborate turbanning by the

Emir Ado Bayero of Kano this morning as the Danmajen Kano.

Not only was Lamido turbaned this morning, but his friends and associates took several pages in the national dailies to sing his praises and congratulate him on the 'honour' done to him.

This is coming even as the nation is still reeling from the shocking deaths of over 155 people who lost their lives when a Dana airline flight from Abuja to Lagos in which they were flying crashed in Iju, a suburb of Lagos, killing all 153 people on board and an as yet unknown number on the ground having crashed into a two story building.

What is even worse is that former military head of state and presidential candidate of the Congresoffer Progressive Change, Muhammadu Buhari and controversial former minister of the FCT, Malam Nasir Elrufai, were both at the event to 'celebrate' with the CBN governor, Lamido Sanusi Lamido.

Many have called to question the propriety of mounting such an ostentatious celebration when the nation is in deep mourning, but it seems that someare mourning while others are celebrating.