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.
This story was first
published on The Sun
