- The Emir of Kano has renewed calls to tackle endemic poverty and rapid population growth to help end deadly Boko Haram violence
- The monarch said unless the root causes of radicalisation were addressed the Islamist militants would always find willing recruits
- Sanusi said climate change, has had a devastating effect on local livelihoods
The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, on Tuesday, November 13, renewed calls to tackle endemic poverty and rapid population growth to help end deadly Boko Haram violence.
The monarch, speaking to academics and clerics at a conference on Boko Haram in Kano city said the Islamist militants would always find willing recruits unless the root causes of radicalisation were addressed.
He said: “We cannot divorce insecurity from the discourse on development and discourse on poverty.”
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Sanusi, also, said climate change, particularly the shrinking of Lake Chad, has had a devastating effect on local livelihoods.
“We cannot divorce… horizontal inequalities from some of the tendencies of violence. Therefore regenerating the lives… and bringing peace to the northeast has to be accompanied by regenerating that economy and recharging the Chad basin,” he said.
The emir said such demographic change would create huge social upheaval that would potentially make the effects of the Boko Haram conflict “child’s play” in the north.
Nigeria needed to build a strong economy and slow population growth to avoid poverty worsening, he added.
Recall that in November 2014, Sanusi called on residents of the city to rise up and defend themselves against the jihadists.
But barely two weeks after his statement, the city’s central mosque near his palace was targeted by gunmen and bombers during Friday prayers. More than 120 people were killed and hundreds of others were injured.
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In a previous report by Legit.ng, the emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, urged Nigerians to refrain from electing politicians without education into public offices.
The monarch gave the advice on Saturday, October 27, when he spoke at the 6th convocation ceremony of Nile University of Nigeria in Abuja.
The former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor said people without education fail to provide education after assuming office.
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