Nigeria Rewarding Thieves With Ministerial Appointments – Sanusi
The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has lamented the erosion of values among different strata of the Nigerian society, noting that thieves are now being celebrated.
According to him, the Nigerian society must stop rewarding people who stole the nation’s commonwealth as public office holders with more public opportunities.
The former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor stated this on Wednesday while appearing on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme.
“The entire value system of the country has been eroded,” Emir Sanusi said.
“A society in which material wealth, no matter how you get it, is respected, is glorified, where people who are known to have stolen money get rewarded with ministerial appointments, that society will continue to reproduce itself.
“We don’t have a sense of disgust for people who hold public office and amass wealth; we reward them with appointments, with more public offices, and more opportunities to amass wealth, and this is what Nigeria has become,” he stated.
Sanusi said many people in public offices were not well brought up, and that accounts for their misbehaviour and faulty orientation of the essence of being in public offices.
“Many people go into government to make money but you don’t go into government to make money,” he said.
“We have been ruled by people who have no values; they have no name behind them, and they have no desire to leave a name after them. These are people who define themselves by what they own; how many houses they have, how many private jets they have, how many billions they have in bank accounts. And they think that is something.
“It is not important to them that people look at them and they only see thieves, they see criminals, they see people who have taken the commonwealth. It is simply not important because for them, values do not matter,” he stated.
Olamilekan Adigun is a graduate of Mass Communication with years of experience in journalism embedded in uncovering human interest stories. He also prioritises accuracy and factual reportage of issues.
