The senator representing Kaduna North, Shehu Sani, has condemned the Kaduna State government for organising music festival as the nation faces economic and security challenges.
Mr. Sani said in a statement that the music fiesta the state plans to organise was uncalled for as the state had competing demands and financial challenges.

“The upcoming multi million naira jamboree known as Kaduna music festival stands unreservedly condemned.
“The event is an indecent and immoral proposition and an affront to the people of Kaduna, the North and the whole of Nigeria struggling to survive economic hardships and pervasive insecurity.

“It’s shameful, disgraceful, irresponsible and utterly insensitive that at this sorrowful and mournful season of bloodshed and economic difficulties, the Kaduna state government and so called ‘banks and the private sector’ have jointly decided to feast, make merry and dance on the graves of victims of Boko Haram insurgency in the North.

“It’s callous and amounts to insouciance that at a time when thousands of civil servants and pensioners across the nation remained unpaid, multi million naira is about to be wasted in a musical event.

“With over 25 thousand innocent persons killed by insurgents, more thousands abducted and unaccounted for, over two million people displaced from their hamlets, homes, villages and towns in the north, and with soldiers on the frontline fighting and dying to restore peace and order in the north, the musical event is nothing other than playing the fiddle while Rome is on fire.

“The musical jamboree is nothing but a complete waste of public and even private resources that could have better be channelled to address other social and economic needs and emergencies of the nation.

“It’s ironic that the very proposed venue of the event where millions of tax payers money will be wasted, the Ahmadu Bello Stadium, remains an uncompleted arena for the past 50 years.

“Kaduna musical festival is a spit on the face of abandoned orphans, neglected widows and widowers ‘generated’ by the violence in the North.
“Attending Kaduna Musical festival amounts to canonization of Emperor Nero. I call on President Muhammadu Buhari to reject the invitation to attend the charade called Kaduna Music festival.

“It’s a contradiction and morally reprehensible that the same Kaduna State government that declared that it will no longer finance pilgrimage to Saudi and Jerusalem and that it refuses to sponsor Ramadan feeding for the poor and Tafsir, but now have enough money to sponsor and host a musical jamboree,” said the senator.

Bekwarra:
The senator representing Kaduna North, Shehu Sani, has
condemned the Kaduna State government for organising
music festival as the nation faces economic and security
challenges.
Mr. Sani said in a statement that the music fiesta the state
plans to organise was uncalled for as the state had competing
demands and financial challenges.
“The upcoming multi million naira jamboree known as
Kaduna music festival stands unreservedly condemned.
“The event is an indecent and immoral proposition and an
affront to the people of Kaduna, the North and the whole of
Nigeria struggling to survive economic hardships and
pervasive insecurity.
“It’s shameful, disgraceful, irresponsible and utterly
insensitive that at this sorrowful and mournful season of
bloodshed and economic difficulties, the Kaduna state
government and so called ‘banks and the private sector’ have
jointly decided to feast, make merry and dance on the graves
of victims of Boko Haram insurgency in the North.
“It’s callous and amounts to insouciance that at a time when
thousands of civil servants and pensioners across the nation
remained unpaid, multi million naira is about to be wasted in a
musical event.
“With over 25 thousand innocent persons killed by insurgents,
more thousands abducted and unaccounted for, over two
million people displaced from their hamlets, homes, villages
and towns in the north, and with soldiers on the frontline
fighting and dying to restore peace and order in the north, the
musical event is nothing other than playing the fiddle while
Rome is on fire.
“The musical jamboree is nothing but a complete waste of
public and even private resources that could have better be
channelled to address other social and economic needs and
emergencies of the nation.
“It’s ironic that the very proposed venue of the event where
millions of tax payers money will be wasted, the Ahmadu
Bello Stadium, remains an uncompleted arena for the past 50
years.
“Kaduna musical festival is a spit on the face of abandoned
orphans, neglected widows and widowers ‘generated’ by the
violence in the North.
“Attending Kaduna Musical festival amounts to canonization
of Emperor Nero. I call on President Muhammadu Buhari to
reject the invitation to attend the charade called Kaduna
Music festival.
“It’s a contradiction and morally reprehensible that the same
Kaduna State government that declared that it will no longer
finance pilgrimage to Saudi and Jerusalem and that it refuses
to sponsor Ramadan feeding for the poor and Tafsir, but now
have enough money to sponsor and host a musical jamboree,”
said the senator.

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mbulela:

They think we can't see.
He subtly added the moral angle to excite his fellow fanatics.

mbulela:

They think we can't see.
He subtly added the moral angle to excite his fellow fanatics.

The event is an indecent and immoral proposition and an
affront to the people of Kaduna, the North .....
It’s a contradiction and morally reprehensible that the same
Kaduna State government that declared that it will no longer
finance pilgrimage to Saudi and Jerusalem and that it refuses
to sponsor Ramadan feeding for the poor and Tafsir, but now
have enough money to sponsor and host a musical jamboree,”

redsconsult:
its not a jamboree. just letting them enjoy social life and also note that all works without play make jack a dull boy....

arresa:
How do you knock a e economic and revenue generating activity based on economic concerns.?


Festivals stimulates the economy? Money is going to change hands, hotels are going to make money and pay taxes to the state, food vendors are going to make and spend money, advertisers, technicians and so on are going to make money and pay taxes....

Too many shallow and shortsighted people in government.

dazdilijae:

It's a complete waste of tax payers money, as we speak not one road or hospital has been renovated in the state and the Govt is spending over 300million for music festival? The worst part is they there is gate fee so where is the unwirning as you guys choose to call it?

StunningCEO:
Shehu Sani should shut up and let kaduna people unwind from life's daily struggles...

idupaul:
I am with Shehu Sani on this , now is not the time for a yeye party

Bekwarra:


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