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Level of corruption still high, if FG has failed, let them call us to come and help out –Sultan

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Sultan passes damning verdict on Buhari’s anti-corruption fight

Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, has frowned at the high level of corruption still present in Nigeria.

He urged the Federal Government to call on people like him to help out if it has failed.

Sultan’s statement is coming just as the latest Corruption Perception Index (CPI) released by Transparency International (TI), placed Nigeria as a country perceived to be highly corrupt.

The monarch made his observation during his remarks at the public presentation of a book, “Dynamics of Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences” in Abuja, which was written in honour of the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede.

The Sultan, who is also the President-General of the Nigerian Council for Islamic Affairs, at the event condemned the story of the N36 million JAMB money that was allegedly swallowed by a snake,

He further urged the Federal Government to fish out the killer herdsmen who are creating bad impression about the Fulani ethnic group.

The monarch who also was the Royal Father of the day, expressed worries that Nigeria no longer has statesmen but men of state.

“We have so many issues coming up in our polity today and I will just pick one. Nigeria is a country where we don’t celebrate innocent and honest people until after their death. After they are gone, you will now name universities, airports and other things after them.

“The issue of N36m being swallowed by a snake is a sad reality for our country. Where is our moral value; where is our ethics? The reality is that we must wake up from our sleep. Let us not fail further. Things are bad. Corruption is at a very high level and it is left for us to fight it to a terminal end.

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“We cannot just sit down and think that things are okay. Things are not okay. We have to find ways of getting things right in this country. We cannot continue with these negative things. Nowadays and like I said recently in Rivers State, we don’t have statesmen; we have men of state.

“We don’t accept criminals in our midst. We must fish them (the killer herdsmen) out and deal with them. The worst word you can hear nowadays is the Fulani issue. There are millions of Fulani who don’t even know what a cow is. I am a Fulani and I am not a herder. I am a proud Fulani. But everyone believes that when you see a Fulani, he is a killer. It is not true. So, for anyone to label any particular ethnicity is wrong. Let’s give criminals their ideal name; not Christian criminals, not Fulani criminals, not Muslim criminals. If the government has failed, let them call us to come and help out.

“Uthman Dan Fodio founded the caliphate many years ago. He said conscience is an open wound, only truth can heal it. We must take a negative inner feeling away from us. We must not allow our biases to prevail over truth,” Sultan said.

 

 

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