‘Do we love people, or just like to govern them?’, Sanusi calls the elites for worsening poverty

The former Governor of the Central Bank and Emir of Kano 14, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has expressed criticism that burned the political and economic elites of Nigeria, challenging them to re-examine their priorities and embrace empathy in government.

His statement came during a public lecture in Abuja, on Saturday, marking the 60th anniversary of the former Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi.

Speaking with the theme “Poverty weapons as a means of underdevelopment: Nigerian case studies,” Sanusi reflects on the ruling and mass reality, asking questions that are piercing echoing throughout the audience: “Do we love people, or do we only like to govern them?”

Sanusi recounts her personal resurrection in the reality of hard poverty, revealing that her understanding of deepening deprivation after riding the throne as a canoe emir.

“As an economist, as a former Governor of CBN, I see the amount. But I don’t know poverty until I become an emir,” he said. “You go to the village and see the water they drink, the houses where they live, class two blocks without a roof, then you understand.”

“And you go to the village and see the water they drink, the houses where they live, class two blocks without a roof.

“Do we love people, or do we only like to govern them? What are our priorities? We make overhead and underpass for ourselves in cities, while in rural areas cannot reach the hospital. We are in a crisis; how we come out must be our focus.”

The message is not only observation, but also the indictment. Sanusi criticized the wrong priority from the government in a row which focused on the development in the centers of the city while ignoring rural areas.

“We make overhead and underpass for ourselves in cities, while in rural areas people cannot reach the hospital,” he said, painting a clear picture of two Nigeria, one paved and special, the other was forgotten and less served.

He called for the reorientation of national values ​​and intentional changes in policy thinking, urged those who were in the position of economic and political forces to govern with compassion and clarity of goals. “We are in a crisis,” he warned. “And the question we have to ask is not just how we get here, but how do we come out?”