According to Symfoni TV, In a deeply emotional and piercingly candid speech at Amaechi’s birthday, the Emir of Kano Sanusi Lamido sounded a powerful alarm over the worsening conditions in Nigeria, warning that the nation is already in crisis and not just approaching one.
Speaking at the gathering, Emir Sanusi Lamido, former Central Bank Governor tore into the complacency and disconnect of the Nigerian elite, offering a moving reflection on the real face of poverty. “The reality about poverty in Nigeria is that many of the elite do not even know what poverty is,” he said. “You don’t know how bad they are until you go and look into the eyes of poverty”, he added.
Reflecting on his own eye-opening experiences as Emir, he described encounters with communities living without schools, water, or food. “I did not know poverty until I became an Emir,” he admitted. “When you see their children, how they look, then you understand what poverty is”, he added.
The Emir questioned whether Nigeria’s leaderships; political, economic, and traditional truly cares for the people it claims to serve, he said; “Do we actually love the people? Or do we just love ruling over them?”
He condemned misplaced national priorities, citing the irony of villages without bridges while Abuja is flooded with overheads and skyscrapers “We build for ourselves,” he said. “Meanwhile people cannot come out of their village to go to hospital”, he added.
He addressed the skyrocketing inflation and its impact on the poor, warning that the numbers translate into starvation and death. He said; “We’ve lived with inflation of over 30% for years. Someone barely able to eat two meals a day is already dead if prices double every two years.”
Perhaps his most chilling remark was in response to those warning of an impending crisis: “Please wake up. We are living with banditry, with Boko Haram. And we are still saying that there will be a problem. What are we waiting for now? We are already there. We are already in crisis. So please let’s stop saying, oh, let us stop before, you know, it has already happened. The question is how do we get out of this situation?”.
Ending with restraint, he noted: “If I speak for five more minutes, there will be a very bad headline.”
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