Corruption Is Ethnic Neutral, Poverty In Borno Worse Than Anywhere In Southern Nigeria – Sanusi
Muhammadu Sanusi II, Emir Of Kano[/caption]
There seems to be no letup in the salvos fired by Emir Muhammadu Sanusi as on Wednesday he fired more, stressing that corruption was ethnic neutral, rather the conspiracy of those with access to state resources.
Posting on his Instagram page, he said when people circumvent the processs, they do so for their own selfish reason, rather than for the group’s survival.
“We started the banking reform; the first thing I heard was that in Urobo land, that there will be a curse of the ancestors. I said they (ancestors) would not answer. They said why? I said how many factories did Ibru build in Urobo land? So, why will the ancestors of the Urobo people support her?
“We talk ethnicity when it pleases us. It is hypocrisy. You said elections were rigged in 1959, Obasanjo and Maurice Iwu rigged election in 2007. Was it a Southern thing? It was not.
“The problem is: everywhere in this country, there is one Hausa, Ibo, Yoruba and Itsekiri man whose concern is how to get his hands on the pile and how much he can steal.
“Whether it is in the military or in the civilian government, they sit down, they eat together. In fact, the constitution says there must be a minister from every state.
“So, anybody that is still preaching that the problem of Nigeria is Yoruba or Hausa or Fulani, he does not love Nigeria. The problem with Nigeria is that a group of people from each and every ethnic tribe is very selfish. The poverty that is found in Maiduguri is even worse than any poverty that you find in any part of the South,” he said.
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The one-time governor of Nigeria’s Central Bank has been strident in his criticism of the northern establishment, accusing them of using religion as a tool to keep the people emasculated.