Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammad Sanusi II, has described himself as a radical traditional ruler while speaking on at the 10th anniversary memorial seminar organised in honour of the late Usman in Kaduna yesterday.
Speaking 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, Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammad Sanusi II, has described himself as a radical traditional ruler.
Sanusi, a former CBN governor 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.
He added that struggle only has meaning if it is against injustice and oppression, adding that any other struggle is meaningless.
The monarch said the message Bala left was one that everyone should take home. “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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