Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, Sultan of Sokoto and President of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), has lamented the state of affairs in the country.
The Sultan stated things are not getting better because of the high cost of living and growing insecurity in the country during his remarks at the 3rd Conference of the Da’awah Coordination Council of Nigeria (DCCN), an amalgamation of roughly 52 Da’awa factions in Gombe.
“We must tell ourselves the home truth and stop deceiving ourselves that things are getting better. The truth is, things are not getting better. Therefore, the earlier we know things are not getting better the better for us, so that we can sit down and find means and ways of solving our problems.
“We must work hard to tackle the insecurity, hunger, poverty and all the negative things afflicting our great country. We have problems, yes we know we have problems and I have said it before that things are not just normal and right in this country, but we can make things normal and right by Allah’s wish, so we have to work hard.
“People are suffering and we have few people that have so much and too many people that have nothing, yet we are not helping the poor.” He said
The Sokoto Monarch called for a sufficient food supply and storage facility in order to sell at a heavily discounted rate to the ordinary man. According to him, the country cannot experience peace, security, or progress without food.
“And without development we are just a bunch of people sitting down.” He added
