{"id":126768,"date":"2024-08-04T11:56:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T10:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/its-time-to-probe-ourselves-as-northerners-after-blaming-other-regions-shehu-sani"},"modified":"2024-08-04T13:07:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T12:07:25","slug":"its-time-to-probe-ourselves-as-northerners-after-blaming-other-regions-shehu-sani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/its-time-to-probe-ourselves-as-northerners-after-blaming-other-regions-shehu-sani","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time to probe ourselves as northerners, after blaming other regions \u2013 Shehu Sani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Senator representing Kaduna North Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, has said it\u2019s time for northerners to look at themselves instead of blaming other regions.<\/p>\n<p>Sani, who wrote on his verified Facebook page on Sunday, lamented that most public schools are free, yet our young ones still don\u2019t want to go to school.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cMany of us don\u2019t want our spouses to work or use their skills or talents to earn a living or contribute to the family. When we die, we leave them as helpless widows at the mercy of a hostile society.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost young people don\u2019t want to serve as apprentices in workshops or retail outlets because they lack the heart and patience to serve.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany parents in rural areas hand over their children to a religious teacher in the city, who depends on the children to beg or steal in order to feed himself and his family. For ethnic, religious, and sectional reasons, we have protected, defended, praised, and refused to hold accountable all our kinsmen who led the country at every wasted opportunity for five decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bandits and terrorists who kill and kidnap our people, deny our farmers access to their farms, and prevent our children from going to school are not from any foreign country or from the south; they come from our homes and families up north. We worship with them in the same mosque. We used to live together as one region in peace, brotherhood, and love, but then we divided and began to hate ourselves along religious lines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t vote for people who will serve us; we vote for those who will provide us with spaghetti and grains. We concoct and spread all sorts of religiously inclined conspiracies to deny our children free health immunization against diseases, resulting in hundreds of thousands of blind, lame, crippled, and deaf children who grow up as victims of polio, glaucoma, or leprosy, begging in northern and southern cities. Many of our women and girls don\u2019t have a business capital of 100k but own an iPhone worth N1.5m. They don\u2019t have capital of 100k but can \u2018struggle\u2019 to meet up with a wedding asoebi of 500k.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe deny most of our girls the right to go beyond secondary school due to negative perceptions about higher education. We don\u2019t want our female children to wear uniforms. Whenever recruitment portals for the Army, Police, Customs, Immigration, and Civil Defence open, we don\u2019t want our female wards to apply.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen our children graduate from universities, especially public universities, most of the parents who attend to celebrate and appreciate their children are from the southern regions. Most of our industries and factories in Kano, Kaduna, and Jos have since closed down when our kinsmen were in power. Our farmers in rural areas are still farming with hoes throughout the period our kinsmen were in power. The groundnut and cotton pyramids disappeared long ago when our kinsmen were at the helm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the spare parts, building materials, and pharmaceutical stores in the north are private businesses owned by people from other regions who were not backed, funded, or supported by any government. When our kinsmen were in power, we attributed our poverty and insecurity to God and to our sins; when our kinsmen are out of power, we attribute our sufferings to the King.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FCT is in the north. Can anyone explain why people from the region couldn\u2019t dominate the private businesses in the FCT, Suleja, and Mararaba? Who should be blamed for this?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod gave us the largest land mass, the largest number of people, most of the rivers, and resources and livestock, and gave us power for the most part of our history. Which of the favours of our Lord can we deny? The North; eighty percent of our problems are ourselves and not anyone \u2018outside of ourselves.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Former Senator representing Kaduna North Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, has said it\u2019s time for northerners to look at themselves instead of blaming other regions. Sani, who wrote on his verified Facebook page on Sunday, lamented that most public schools are free, yet our young ones still don\u2019t want to go to school. 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