If the government has failed, let them call us to come and help out - Sultan of Sokoto

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- Sultan of Sokoto reacted to the corruption and herdsmen crisis in Nigeria

- The Sultan said Nigeria is still battling with high level corruption

- He urged Nigerians to stop associating crime with religion or ethnic group

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, called on the federal government to put an end to the herdsmen crisis in Nigeria.

The Sultan also said there is still high level of corruption in Nigeria despite the anti-corruption fight and urged Nigerians to aid the government in fighting it.

The Sultan made these statement during the public presentation of a book, Dynamics of Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences in Abuja, The Punch reports.

He said: “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.

“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."

Speaking on the issue of herdsmen crisis in Nigeria, the Sultan said not all Fulani are herdsmen and not all herdsmen are violent killers. He urged Nigerians to separate crime from religion or Ethnic denomination.

He said: "We don’t accept criminals in our midst. We must fish them (the killer herdsmen) out and deal with them. The worst word you can hear nowadays is the Fulani issue. There are millions of Fulani who don’t even know what a cow is. I am a Fulani and I am not a herder. I am a proud Fulani. But everyone believes that when you see a Fulani, he is a killer. It is not true. So, for anyone to label any particular ethnicity is wrong. Let’s give criminals their ideal name; not Christian criminals, not Fulani criminals, not Muslim criminals. If the government has failed, let them call us to come and help out.

“Uthman Dan Fodio founded the caliphate many years ago. He said conscience is an open wound, only truth can heal it. We must take a negative inner feeling away from us. We must not allow our biases to prevail over truth.”

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NAIJ.com previously reported that the National Council of Traditional Rulers of Nigeria (NCTRN) has urged the federal government to end the senseless killings in the country.

The chairman of NCTRN and Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Abubakar, made the call at the opening of the council’s General Assembly in Port Harcourt on Tuesday.

Abubakar called on the federal government to institute a high powered commission of inquiry to investigate the killings across the country.

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