Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, has said that it is criminal to sponsor people to Hajj and other pilgrimages with government’s funds. He made the assertion at the two-day Northern Nigeria Traditional Leaders Conference on Out-Of-School Children, which ended yesterday in Kaduna.


According to him, any one who takes one kobo to sponsor people for hajj is stealing, insisting: “It is not an act of piety, but we do it all the time.“In 2000, I wrote an article on a government that sent 300 scholars to hajj. We are all malikis’ here. Imam Malik said it is prohibited, unlawful to take money from the treasury to sponsor a poor man who has no money for hajj.”

He also tasked governments to prioritise spending on education, health and development, saying, “This 2018, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources announced that the country spends N1.4 trillion annually on petroleum subsidy for which there is no budget.

“We are spending this amount annually to on petroleum products, but we can give only N100 billion for basic education. How are we going to fix education?Sanusi, who frowned on the increase in number of Out-Of-School children, especially in the Northern part of the country, added: “We have a state in Northwestern Nigeria, where only 184 children sat for the National Ordinary level examination in 2017.

“Only 24 of those children passed in the entire state. Where has all the money gone that is supposed to be spent on education, if you can produce only 24 students in your state? he queried.He further lamented that in that same state, less than 30 children registered for the common entrance examinations this year.

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until we restructure this country will never move forward.may I dedicate my FTC to H.E Atiku #JoinMeInAtikulating

It really makes no sense, an underveloped country pouring money into Saudi's coffers. The stupidity has also inspired Christians to start requesting for state sponsored pilgrimmage - thereby adding money into the economy of three developed Nations -Saudi, Italy and Isreal.

Those three nations have used religion to better their own economies while Africa keeps languishing. The least thing Organized religion can do is to bring religious tourist into the country like the SCOAN guy but instead we keep running across the globe looking for what is not missing. As for Christians Jesus is in heaven, the Holy Spirit is in you, stop courting state funds for unneeded trips. As for Muslims Hajj has not bettered anyone's life you would still come back to Nigeria with all your troubles waiting for you - that is if you don't die running from something that is not chasing you.

Thank you sir

Buhari should be impeached and jailed

Buhari is a criminal

Well said

Zombies can now see why we are Atikulating
restructuring will resolve this issues

This is the most refined emir Nigeria ever had. The Sultan hardly makes these kinds of far reaching statements of change. The north has remained static in illiteracy and the people that should make the change are all mute. They will rather spend billions in Ramadan rams than education.

Why are we spending our little resources to make Saudi Arabia and Israel richer?

with buhari, restructuring and a better nigeria will be a future impossible tence, he is the only military general that failed all his exams. Buhari lacks the critical ability to
handle economic,social, rigour thus why
he became a career coupist. Modifed: he was refering to zamfara in case you dont know the state.

God bless the emir of Kano, this is the biggest truth to come out of the mouth of a Nigerian, sponsoring Pilgrimage is the biggest scam ever by the arabs and jews. our common wealth that is not enough yet we are given to them that had xcess

BUHARI WHY?

It is indeed. I support you my namesake

Exactly...it is just criminal.
Nice one Mr. Sanusi.

You can say that again!

Govt sponsored pilgrimage is another waste any Nigerian govt should ban, if anyone wants to go for pilgrimage let them sponsor themselves

And sponsoring monachs with govt funds is stupid

Sanusi is one of the most brilliant Fulani out there
His views are always top notch

APC's Sponsoring BUHARI as its presidential candidate, is very illegal considering his momental failure.

FriendNG Will not sleep today

Ok

Extremely criminal. Going on pilgrimage should be personally borne. The amount Government expend every year on it is enough to turn around the agricultural sector if properly dispensed.

yomi962:
with buhari, restructuring and a better nigeria will be a future impossible tence, he is the only military general that failed all his exams. Buhari lacks the critical ability to
handle economic,social, rigour thus why
he became a career coupist.

so u think the north would support restructuringhahahahah. U expect senators to vote something that would make dem broke. Naso

Southern government builds school with public funds, northern government builds mosques with public funds..

Southerners go to school
Northerners go to learn Quran and Arabic language..

After las las they'd come and be ruling the whole country..
This is the situation Nigeria finds herself in.

People who are too religious should be in the mosques and churches and not in the government houses.

People like Buhari should be somewhere in iraq and Saudi Arabia fighting jihad.. he shouldn't have any reason being in the ASO Rock..

Tell them. And they wonder why we continue in poverty

BIAFRONIGERIAN:
Zombies can now see why we are Atikulating
restructuring will resolve this issues

. Atiku will restructure

You can belive anything

this man is just epic. truth is sweet in his mouth.

Lawless country. Pilgrimage for funfair, yet tax payers are suffering.

Swear if you have not benefitted from it

Sanusi

Yes . . . I have been saying it. You can't use lack of development to justify the present sharing arrangement, get the huge money from Abuja, and then start sponsoring pilgrimage that doesn't solve educational problems, infrastructural deficiencies, and idleness.
The Emir must have been reading my posts on NairaLand a lot . . . Lol