The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has on Thursday, implored Nigerians, especially Muslims to give birth to only the number of children they can cater for as well as men should imbibe the habit of marrying the number of women they can cater for.
While maintaining that there is a need to get all out of school children back to the school, Sanusi “If we continued this way, about 40 per cent extremely poor people will be in Nigeria. It is 20 per cent in the South West, North it is 80 per cent, Lagos is 8 per cent and Zamfara, it is 91 per cent.
“We have been talking about Almajri for over 30 years. Why are people having family that they cannot maintain? Why are people marrying wife that they cannot maintain? The condition is that you are able to provide for your family.
“Instead of having many children, why not having the ones you can cater for? These are the fundamental questions we should ask ourselves. Most of these children roaming about the streets will be adult in the next twenty years and they will be the ones recruit as political thugs by the politicians if we don’t take good care of them now.
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Sanusi who gave this advice while speaking at the opening of the 108th Islamic Vocation Course (IVC) organized by the Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN) Zone B held at IVC Permanent Camp, along Lagos-Ibadan expressway in Ogun State said “this is my own advice that we must look at. These are not religion, they are social issues that need to be addressed”.
Dignitaries present at the program which has its theme as “The Unification”, included the Deputy Governor of Oyo state, Rauf Olaniyan, Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, Resident Electoral Commissioners in Oyo and Ogun State, Mutiu Agboke and Abdulganiy Raji,a Professor ,former and Present Executive Secretary of Muslim Ummah of South West Nigeria (MUSWEN), Daud Noibi and Muslih Yahyah both. Professors
Others are Aare Musulumi of Yoruba land, Edo and Delta, Daud Makanjuola, Baba Adini of Yoruba land, Edo and Delta, Sharafadeen Tunji Ishola, Iya Adini of Yoruba land, Edo and Delta, Sekinah Adekola, National President (Amir) of MSSN, Taofeek Yekeen, MSSN Zone B Amir, Qaasim Odedeji and Chairman Muslim Community of Oyo State, Isiaq Kunle Sanni and Abideen Olaiya, a Professor
Sanusi while speaking on the array of social problems bedeviling the country, insisted that the issue of Almajri syndrome not a religious issue but a social issue that needs urgent attention.
The Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar , urged Muslims not to be provoked by any utterances from either any political or religious leaders but continued to be law abiding.
Abubakar while urging Muslims to work for the unity of the country said, “we will not work to divide Nigeria. We should not take arm, don’t be provoked by any utterances. Be law abiding wherever you are”.
