I am radical traditional ruler – Emir Sanus
Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammad Sanusi II,
has described himself as a radical traditional
ruler.
The monarch said that he graduated from the
late Dr. Yusuf Bala Usman’s school of
progressive struggle to become a teacher,
banker and now a radical Emir.
Sanusi, a former CBN governor said struggle
only has meaning if it is against injustice and
oppression, adding that any other struggle is
meaningless.
Speaking on at the 10th anniversary memorial
seminar organised by the Centre for
Democratic Development and Research
Training in honour of the late Usman in
Kaduna yesterday, the Emir said the message
Bala left was one that everyone should take
home.
According to him, “we spend so many
decades fighting a system, and every time we
think we have defeated one system, the next
one seems to be even worse and it is like an
uphill task. If you look at what we were
fighting in the 1970’s and 1980’s against the
NPN, and compare the NPN with what came
after that, the NPN will look like an angel.
“So, we are at a point in this country where
we actually have to reverse this trend. For us
that were in ABU in the 70’s, we were inspired
or taught by the late Bala. He was an
undisputed leader of Northern progressives.
“Most of us graduated to become radical
teachers, radical professors, radical bankers
and radical emirs, but we never left the
essential message of Bala and it is a
message that all of us should take home.
“In life, if you are at all committed to struggle,
struggle only has meaning if it is against
injustice and oppression. Any other struggle is
meaningless.
“Fighting for ethnicity, starting needless and
mindless religious wars, struggle for spores of
power, none of those are worth it.
“People are dying every day from lack of
education, from lack healthcare, lack of
security, bad governance, corruption, bad
economic policies and the real struggle that is
meaningful in our lives is to try to improve
that situation and fight against those
injustices.
“It has been my misfortune to be always mis-
categorised in government, but I am not a
card bearing member of any political party.
But I have friends who shared the same vision
of Bala Usman and that is what brought us
together.
“I pray that this seminar will continue the
tradition of cultivating minds and setting
mindsets, programmes and hopefully, those
minds will be integral to the change that we
want, the removal of oppression and injustice
and the creation of a better society which was
the dream of the late Bala Usman.”
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Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammad Sanusi II,
has described himself as a radical traditional
ruler.
The monarch said that he graduated from the
late Dr. Yusuf Bala Usman’s school of
progressive struggle to become a teacher,
banker and now a radical Emir.
Sanusi, a former CBN governor said struggle
only has meaning if it is against injustice and
oppression, adding that any other struggle is
meaningless.
Speaking on at the 10th anniversary memorial
seminar organised by the Centre for
Democratic Development and Research
Training in honour of the late Usman in
Kaduna yesterday, the Emir said the message
Bala left was one that everyone should take
home.
According to him, “we spend so many
decades fighting a system, and every time we
think we have defeated one system, the next
one seems to be even worse and it is like an
uphill task. If you look at what we were
fighting in the 1970’s and 1980’s against the
NPN, and compare the NPN with what came
after that, the NPN will look like an angel.
“So, we are at a point in this country where
we actually have to reverse this trend. For us
that were in ABU in the 70’s, we were inspired
or taught by the late Bala. He was an
undisputed leader of Northern progressives.
“Most of us graduated to become radical
teachers, radical professors, radical bankers
and radical emirs, but we never left the
essential message of Bala and it is a
message that all of us should take home.
“In life, if you are at all committed to struggle,
struggle only has meaning if it is against
injustice and oppression. Any other struggle is
meaningless.
“Fighting for ethnicity, starting needless and
mindless religious wars, struggle for spores of
power, none of those are worth it.
“People are dying every day from lack of
education, from lack healthcare, lack of
security, bad governance, corruption, bad
economic policies and the real struggle that is
meaningful in our lives is to try to improve
that situation and fight against those
injustices.
“It has been my misfortune to be always mis-
categorised in government, but I am not a
card bearing member of any political party.
But I have friends who shared the same vision
of Bala Usman and that is what brought us
together.
“I pray that this seminar will continue the
tradition of cultivating minds and setting
mindsets, programmes and hopefully, those
minds will be integral to the change that we
want, the removal of oppression and injustice
and the creation of a better society which was
the dream of the late Bala Usman.”
Daily post.
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