The Emir of Birnin Gwari in Kaduna State, Mallam Zubairu Jibrin Maigwari II, has blamed immoral behaviours that are openly displayed by people as being responsible for the insecurity bedevilling the region.
He noted that in the North today, sodomy and lesbianism are being practised in the open. According to him, immoral acts are enough for God to be angry with the region.
The monarch, who spoke on the insecurity in the North during a Juma’at service in Kaduna, therefore counselled that the way to appease God is to embark on serious prayers and seek God’s intervention. “We need salvation and only God can redeem us from the present situation. No person can do that for us.
“Today sodomy and lesbianism are the order of the day everywhere, the North in particular. People do it with pride. People no longer fear Allah. Even that alone is enough for God to be angry with us. That’s why we are facing what (insecurity) we are facing today,” the emir stated.
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| Sultan Abubakar blamed Northern leaders for the region's backwardness. |
Meanwhile, the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, had said that Nigeria is struggling to make progress because the North is backward as it struggles with many problems including, poverty, illiteracy, insecurity, and religious intolerance.
The Islamic leader who said the north of today is a far departure from what the late Premier of the North and Sardauna of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello planned for the region, said until the North is able to overcome its many challenges, Nigeria will continue to suffer.
The Sultan stated this in his remarks at the first session of the 50th-anniversary celebration of the Arewa House in Kaduna.
He challenged northern leaders to work hard in creating a region that will project the vision of the late Premier.
“The north of today is not the same north Sardauna wanted to see or had dreamt about. It’s not the same north that our children now roam the streets, begging for food in the name of Almajiranci. It is not the same north in which Sardauna wanted all our girls to go to school and he was very passionate about girl child education. It is not the north that he has built and left a very solid foundation and it is now left for our politicians to build on that foundation.
“Bring everyone together irrespective of tribe and religion, that was what Sardauna did, that was the Sardauna we knew as children and we are still trying to copy him but we are not yet there”. Sultan said.
He added that the people must work together to develop the north, stressing that when the north develops, it is Nigeria that is developing.