North Trying To Create An Islamic Society That Never Existed –Emir OF Kano

The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has said that the northern part of Nigeria is  trying to create an Islamic society that never existed.

He stated on Wednesday  this while speaking on the theme “Promoting Investments In The Midst Of Economic Challenges” at the Kaduna Economic Summit held in the city of Kaduna.

He berated northern leaders for not encouraging  girl-child education and women empowerment, adding that for the region, which ranks among the poorest in the world  to develop, they must change their  mindsets and do away with religious and cultural attachments which have been abandoned in other parts of the Islamic world. Northerners, he argued, must recognize that the rest of the world has moved on.

“Other Muslim nations have pushed forward girl-child education, they’ve pushed forward science and technology. They have pushed forward the arts. We have this myth in northern Nigeria, where we try to create an Islamic society that never existed,” the monarch said.

Sanusi pointed out that for the region to make any headway with its developmental programmes, it must first fix its social and religious problems, which were the reasons the north-west and north-east regions of Nigeria have remained stagnant educationally and technologically.