The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has again blamed
Governor Abdul’aziz Yari of Zamfara State, for the spread of meningitis in the
state and attendant deaths.
Sanusi, on his official Instagram page on Tuesday, said many
Muslim countries like the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia were
competing with other developed western countries, lamenting that
Muslim-dominated states in northern Nigeria were only using their own knowledge
to impoverish their people.
Sanusi stated, “Muslim countries are holding their own in
the modern world, proving that Islam is not a religion of underdevelopment.
However, the likes of Zamfara State Governor Yari only strengthen this
prejudice.
“Abdulaziz Yari quite ludicrously said the deadly
meningitis, rampaging his state, is divine punishment for fornication. He
didn’t say how this was revealed to him because Zamfara certainly doesn’t have
the highest number of fornicators in the nation.
“His preposterous statement fails to take into account the
fact that meningitis isn’t a sexually transmitted ailment.
“The truth about the matter is that despite being warned of
an impending outbreak, his government took no steps to prepare. Now he blames
God! We are stuck with political leaders who only pretend to be godly because
sycophants always refer to people in high political office as a ‘God-sent’.
“Paradoxically, despite being ruled by all these
‘God-sents’, we have spectacularly failed to progress as a nation. It’s no
secret that many of our political leaders are inept and not well-educated.
Nigerians have learnt from experience not to expect much from them.”
Sanusi said he would continue to fight for the progress of
Nigeria since politicians had shown that they lacked vision and good intentions
for the people.
The former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria noted
that he chose to fight for the progress of Nigerians and suggest solutions to
their problems
“It’s my duty to speak the truth about the ill-effects of
conservative Muslims who are harming Islam rather than helping it.
“I still believe that conservative Muslims are still stuck
in the 13th Century and their claim that children need no other knowledge than
Islamic studies flies in the face of reality. All the poverty,
under-development and immense suffering in the North are a result of uneducated
masses refusing to learn work or trade.
“The majority of technicians in Kano are from the south
while untrained indigenes beg. How does that make sense? Why is it that
conservative Muslims, who claim to be against scientific progress, enter
aeroplanes and fly to perform the Hajj in Mecca rather than using camels to
cross the desert!
“Unless northern political leaders like Governor Yari pay
attention to me, there will never be a day when anywhere in the North will be
like the modern Muslim cities of Kuala Lumpar, Istanbul, Jakarta, Lahore,
Greater Cairo, Dacca, Karachi, Dubai, Riyadh or Faisalabad.”
