The people's laziness is responsible of the hunger in the land – Sultan of Sokoto

Nigeria is a country believed to be filled with milk and honey but this is not reflected in the lives of it populace, it is in this vein that the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, has ascribed the cause of hunger in the land to the laziness of the people.

He stated that if the fertile land which the country is blessed with is properly utilized, there won’t be cases of hunger in the hand.

He gave his position while responding to remarks of the Chairman of the Shura Committee of the National Islamic Centre, Mallam Ahmad Bello, who maintained that there was extreme hunger in the land at the 22rd annual Ummah Convention held in Sokoto.

“The chairman, Shura committee talks about hunger in the land but let me make it clear that we are hungry because we are lazy,” the Sultan said, as quoted by DailyTrust.

Mallam Ahmad Bello had supported his claim about hunger in the land by pointing out that there are millions of hopeless children, all victims of cruel parental neglect, who go about begging for food from households, on streets, or just eating out of dustbins.

He also called on the political and spiritual leaders in the country to do something to augment the efforts of the government to make sure the problem is solved fast.

Bello in his closing remarks added thus: “It would be a crime, a sin and a folly not to do so”.