The Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III, on Wednesday raised the alarm over the level of corruption in the country, stressing that urgent steps needed to be taken to stem the tide.
He said the nation could no longer continue to pretend that things were well.
According to the Sultan who spoke during the public presentation of a book, “Dynamics of Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences,” written in honour of Ishaq Oloyede, registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), it was high time the nation fought corruption to an end.
His words: “We have so many issues coming up in our polity today and I will just pick one. Nigeria is a country where we don’t celebrate innocent and honest people until after their death. After they are gone, you will now name universities, airports and other things after them.
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“The issue of N36m being swallowed by a snake is a sad reality for our country. Where is our moral value; where is our ethics?
“The reality is that we must wake up from our sleep. Let us not fail further. Things are bad. Corruption is at a very high level and it is left for us to fight it to a terminal end.
“We cannot just sit down and think that things are okay. Things are not okay. We have to find ways of getting things right in this country.
“We cannot continue with these negative things. Nowadays and like I said recently in Rivers State, we don’t have statesmen; we have men of state.”
