Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has said that should Nigerian be broken into smaller components today, the northern part of the country would be the poorest of the regions.
The Emir also urged Muslims to imbibe and adopt western education and stop using religion and culture to set the region backward.
Emir Sanusi said this in his key note address during the opening ceremony of Kaduna State’s investment ands economic summit (KADINVEST), titled ‘Promoting Investment Amidst Economic Challenges’.
The emir then urged that it would be wrong to mirror living standard in the north in line with the oil rich Niger Delta, commercially viable Lagos and business oriented south-east.
He also said that the North East and West are the most poorest in the country and even in the world.
Other Muslim countries have pushed on. We are fighting culture, we are fighting civilisation. You tell me that you should not write love book in northern Nigerian. He also says it is wrong to burn books of science based on religion.
“What is the crime of those books?” he asks. Going further, he questioned the right of people in having more children in the region without having the resource to take care of them.
“Of what benefit is it to the north, having three million children roaming about?” he asks.
In reaction a social commentator posted:
Factual reality
What the Emir said is the greatest fear of the north. A lot of deluded Northerners think that finding oil in the North or Chad Basin will automatically emancipate North from their abject poverty and penury. Far from it.The North is suffering from Poverty of the mind. Should Nigeria Divide today. The crime rate in Northern Nigeria will soar to 80% in six months. Almost all Northern states depend on fed allocations from the center for survival. They have produced the worst leadership in human history. A typical Northerner thinks He is more religious than a Turkish Muslim simply because He wears suit. Go to Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco. These nations have remained afloat despite all challenges because their mind is open. Till today states in the north ceremoniously or secretly burn western books.
I remember reminding a class mate who told me that alcohol is a No No in most states of the North. I said really. And so I asked. The government collects tax from Nigerian breweries. ..British American Tobacco, Start Larger Beer etc. This tax collected is distributed down North and your leaders never seperate or reject the money because it’s unclean. Poverty of the mind is irredeemable if the sufferers never acknowledge it’s a problem…Imagine Kano rejecting the building of a film school. A vision any state in the south will jump at. This economic dichotomy between tge North and South will continue to engender social inequality, Hunger and depredations in years to come.
