Emir of Kano, Sanusi Muhammad II says if
Nigeria were to break up into components
today, Northern Nigeria would be the poorest
countries in the world.
The Monarch said this in his key note
address during the opening ceremony of
Kaduna State’s Investment and Economic
summit (KADINVEST), titled ‘Promoting
Investment Amidst Economic Challenges’ in
Kaduna state today April 5th.
Emir stressed that it would be a disservice
to use the standard of living of Nigerians
residing in oil rich Niger Delta or
commercially viable Lagos and business
oriented south-east, to compare that of the
North. According to the Emir, the North East
and North West regions are the most
poorest regions in the country and even in
the world.
“As far back at 2000, I looked at the
numbers, Borno and Yobe states,
UNDP figures, Borno and Yobe
states, if they were a country on their
own, were poorer than Niger,
Cameroon and Chad. Nobody saw
this because we were looking at
Nigeria as a country that averages
the oil-rich Niger Delta, the industrial
and commercial-rich Lagos, the
commercially viable southeast, and
you have an average.Break Nigeria
into its component parts, and these
parts of the country are among the
poorest, if it were a country. And we
do not realise we are in trouble”he
said Continuing the monarch said
“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. What is the crime
of those books?” he asked.
He decried the burning of science books in
some parts of the Nort due to religious
beliefs. On the culture of marrying more
than one wife and given birth to children
without proper Family planning, Sanusi said
“Of what benefit is it to the north,
having three million children roaming
about?” he asks.

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