Emir Of Kano, Sanusi, Advices Northerners On Family Planning
One time governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, and current Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II, is calling on the Northerners to be mindful of the number of children they birth.
According to the Emir, Nigerians, especially Muslims should only give birth to the number of children they can cater for. Sanusi gave this advice while speaking at the opening of the 108th edition of Islamic Vocation Course (IVC) organized by the Muslim Studentsâ Society of Nigeria (MSSN) Zone B, with the theme âThe Unificationâ
While speaking on the array of social problems bedeviling the country, the emir insisted that the issue of Almajiri syndrome in the north is not a religious issue, but a social issue that needs urgent attention.
While also maintaining that there is a need to get all out of school children back to school, Sanusi asked men to imbibe the habit of marrying the number of women they can provide for. He was quoted according to DailyPost:
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âIf we continued this way, about 40 per cent extremely poor people will be in Nigeria. Poverty in the South West is 20 percent, in the North, it is 80 percent, Lagos is 8 per cent and Zamfara, it is 91 per cent.
We have been talking about Almajiri for over 30 years. Why are people having families they cannot maintain? Why are people marrying wives that they cannot maintain? The condition is that you are able to provide for your family.
Instead of having many children, why not have 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 recruited as political thugs by the politicians in the next twenty years, if we donât take good care of them now.
This is my own advice that we must look at. These are not religious issues, they are social issues that need to be addressedâ.
