Emir of kano silenced by Northern elites.

The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, says
members of the Northern elite are trying to
silence him. He said this while delivering his
speech at the Inaugural Annual Chibok Girls
Lecture held in commemoration of the third
anniversary of the abduction of over 200
schoolgirls from Chibok Government Girls
Secondary School by terrorists in Borno State.
The event, in Abuja on Friday, had the theme -
‘Where goes our girl child, our nation goes.’
The monarch, represented by his daughter,
Shahida Sanusi, said he stayed away from the
event due to the criticisms he had received from
northern leaders following his statement of last
week wherein he criticised them for being
responsible for many of the North’s social
maladies.
Sanusi said rather than address the issues,
‘anti-intellectual’ persons were trying to silence
him.
He said, “Our colleagues and compatriots among
the elite do not like statistics. Numbers are
disturbing. I recently gave a speech in which I
said the North-East and North-West of Nigeria
are the poorest parts of the country. This simple
statement of fact has generated so much heat,
the noise has yet to die down.
“The response to this speech has been a barrage
of personal attacks and insults aimed at
silencing any voices that dare shine the light on
the society to which we are saying Bring Back
our Girls.
“There are those who believe these attacks are
aimed at discrediting me personally but even if
that is the objective, it will not work. I can only
be discredited by what I have done and not by
insults and lies on the social media. And in any
event, personal criticism has no impact on the
issues.”
He said he had been championing the cause of
the downtrodden all his life. Sanusi added that
even if he was dethroned, he would continue to
speak for the rights of the helpless.
1,500 girls carrying B’Haram babies
Sanusi also said there are at least 1,500 girls
either carrying or nursing babies fathered by
Boko Haram fighters at the Dalori 2 Internally
Displaced Persons camp near Maiduguri alone.
He, therefore, called on all Nigerians, especially
members of the ‘Bring Back Our Girls’ group to
do everything possible to protect the girl child or
face another existential crisis in the near future.