Spates of Challenges in the North, Dangerous for Nigeria – Kwankwaso
By Juliet Vincent
A former governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has lamented the numerous spates of challenges confronting the north saying the situation is not good for the country.
These challenges include economic crisis, insecurity, poverty, hunger and different kinds of diseases.
Kwankwaso, the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in the 2023 election made the remarks at the convocation of Skyline University, Kano.
As such, he called on all National Assembly members from the north to keep their eyes open so that they don’t do anything that would cheat the people of northern Nigeria, especially in Kano.
“We are witnesses to what happened during the first term, 1999 to 2000, where our members of the National Assembly were bribed, were threaten into collecting huge sums of money to support offshore in this country. That law put a huge blow into our economy not only here in northern Nigeria but all other states,” he said.
Kwankwaso also spoke of alleged efforts by Lagos axis to colonize northern part of Nigeria. “Today, we can see very clearly that there is a lot of efforts from the Lagos axis to colonize this part of the country. Today, Lagos wouldn’t allow us to choose an emir, Lagos has to come to the centre of Kano to put their own emir,” he said.
He noted that: “Let me note our situation here in Kano and indeed northern Nigeria. The emir is just being a stooge at this very difficult time, especially in this part of the country [northern Nigeria].”
On tax collection, he pointed out that “Today, we are aware that the Lagos young men are working so hard to impose taxes and take away our taxes from Kano and this part of the country to Lagos,” claiming that even the telephones that are made or register in Kano, efforts are there to take all the taxes to Lagos.
According to him, factories bought by many in Kano and northern Nigeria and even banks, somehow, they are forced to take their headquarters to Lagos because taxes will now have to go to Lagos.
He also spoke on the gap between the rich and the poor noting that efforts are seen of some people to make the poor poorer and the rich richer pointing out that this is more dangerous.
