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Sultan: North is the worst place to be in Nigeria

Saddam Yusuf Saleh
By Saddam Yusuf Saleh
Published: November 26, 2020
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Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III
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The Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III, has said that the North is the worst place to be in the country over the raging issue of banditry and kidnapping.

The monarch made this disclosure on Thursday while speaking during the 4th Quarterly Meeting of the Nigeria Inter-Religious Council (NIREC).

According to him, the common man is at the receiving end things are gradually becoming beyond his reach.

He said: “Now north is not secure at all. In fact, it is the worst place to be in this country because bandits go about in the villages with their AK-47 and nobody talks to them.

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“They stop at the markets and buy things and even collect change with their weapons.

“We have security problems in the country, bandits now go into people’s houses to kidnap, not on the highway anymore.

“Of recent in the last couple of days, they are going into institutions, in Zaria; ABU, the Polytechnic and took away people.”

He said that in the North-West in particular, people don’t sleep with their eyes closed, adding that even on Wednesday, a village was razed down in Sokoto, but people did not hear about it.

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“The insecurity in the north is so high that people are even afraid of travelling from Funtua to Zaria, a journey of about 48 or 50 miles; not to talk of Sokoto to Abuja or to Kano.

“We know what we are going through. We are so insecure in the North that people are losing hope. People keep things in the house so that when the bandits come, they would let them be free.

“A couple of weeks ago, 76 people were killed in Sokoto by bandits in a day. It is not a story because I went there with the governor in the eastern part of Sokoto, but you don’t hear these stories because it happened in the North.

“And we don’t have media that is strong enough to bring out these atrocities about the bandits so people think that the North is secure.”

He also said, “Food prices are on the increase and we need to do something about it. The cost of onion is too high and beyond the reach of many people.

“A hungry man is an angry man. The rising cost of foodstuff in the markets is an issue. The amount an onion costs in Nigeria today is an insight into the current economic hardship in the country.

“I think we really need to sit down and look at these issues because a hungry man is an angry man. We do not lack recommendations and solutions to our problems.

“What we lack is implementation and that sense of purpose to do the right thing, but we don’t like doing the right thing, we always want to cut corners.”

In his own submission, the President, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and co-chairman of NIREC, Dr Samson Olasupo Ayokunle, while thanking God for saving the nation from the COVID-19 pandemic, compared to other countries, urged the government to always tackle problems before they degenerate.

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