The senator representing Kaduna Central senatorial district in the National Assembly, Sen. Shehu Sani, has identified nine reasons behind extreme poverty in Northern Nigeria.
Sani, a Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) senator, took to his Facebook page on Monday morning to identify the reasons.
The senator, who is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts, said that “neglect of agriculture, dependence on oil revenues, decadence and collapse of public education” were some of the reasons.
He further highlighted “fatal
ism, septic extremism and toxic inter ethnic violence” as other cause of extreme poverty in the nation’s 19 northern states.
Other reasons Sani gave included “abandoning the moral and ethical standards and economic vision and legacies of Ahmadu Bello; and culpability of successive Northern leaders in power; entrenched handouts culture; pliant attitudinal incumbrance of refusing to challenge leaders and hold them to account or the slavery of loyalty or inimical subservience; decades of systemic marginalisation, emasculation and oppression and Institutional contempt for the poor by the regional elites”.
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