The Supreme Council for Shari’ah in Nigeria (SCSN) has noted with grave concern the whooping sums of money amounting to trillions of naira being pumped into curtailing insecurity and boosting power supply in the country without positive results.
Addressing the annual pre-Ramadan meeting in Kaduna, the President, SCSN, Sheikh Abdurrasheed Hadiytullah, called on Muslims to impress on the federal government to put a stop to corruption, leakages and wasteful spending of public funds.
This is just as the Minister of Defence, Alhaji Badaru Abubakar, assured that the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led federal government is making efforts to deploy technology towards combating the security challenges bedeviling the country particularly banditry and insurgency.
Sheikh Hadiytullah regretted that the ordinary Nigerians were bearing the brunt of the wasteful spending, and urged the leaders to develop the political will to tackle corruption headlong to ensure sanity in the country.
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He, however, tasked the Ummah to stay away from hate speech and preaching before, during and after the Ramadan to avoid attracting violence, adding that Islam is not a religion of violence but love and unity.
He said, “We should in unison keep appealing to our governments to take concrete steps to address the issue of corruption, leakages and wasteful spending. Corruption is like a cancer, which destroys everything noble and undermines the principles of good governance. Here, it is perfectly justified to ask our leaders, why should the ordinary Nigerian be made to bear the brunt of insecurity with trillions being spent on the security agencies without positive result or accountability?
“Why should the ordinary Nigerian suffer difficulties from power failure and its skyrocketing cost with over $ 20 billion wasted on power, without positive results or accountability? There is no doubt that we cannot reasonably expect solutions to issues bedeviling our lives until our leaders summon the political will to address the issue of corruption, whenever, wherever and whoever is involved.”
