The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji
Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar, has told President Muhammadu Buhari and other office
holders to fix the country.
The Sultan spoke in strong tone
on Friday during the Independence Day Public Lecture held at the National
Mosque, Abuja.
Expressing worry about
unemployment and fate of youths in Nigeria, Abubakar quipped: “What is
government doing about this?”
He said Nigeria was plagued with
many issues of governance and other socio-economic challenges in spite of her
endowment with human and natural resources.
“We should search ourselves where
we are right now. Are we in the Nigerian nation of our dream? Can 200 million
people say ‘yes’ this is the country which we desire? It is a question for
which I don’t have answers,” Thisday quoted him as saying.
Referring to Buhari (represented
by the FCT Minister, Muhammad Musa Bello) and other office holders the Sultan
said: “Governance is not a one man show.
“It is for us to come together
and move the country forward. As Muslims, we know the import of leadership. We
should not be shy to ask our leaders to do the just and be just in handling the
affairs of our people.”
He lamented that leadership
failure was the reason Nigerian youths embark on the perilous migration to
Europe, with many of them perishing in the desert and Mediterranean Sea.
The monarch noted that Nigerian
youths are gainfully engaged, they will not be at risk of xenophobic attacks in
South Africa, and the urge to migrate abroad would be minimised.
His words: “Our youths should be
our pride. I say yes and no. Some of them have excelled all over the world in
all fields and have won laurels.
“At the same time, some involve
in criminality like banditry, insurgency and advance fee fraud. What pushed
them into this, we must find out and correct. What is government doing about
this?
“There was a programme by the
previous government of Goodluck Jonathan, which built buildings across the
country. What happened to that programme?
“Government should revive the
programme and bring the children on the streets to school. Some of the children
are victims of hunger and are looking for food. Islam does not allow begging”,
he stated.
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