The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar, has lamented the hoarding of wealth by public officials.

He called for comprehensive measures to curb corruption and promote fairness in the country.
Most Nigerian leaders live larger than life, flaunt ill-gotten wealth while the citizens live in abject poverty.
The World Poverty Clock in a 2023 report reported that there were 71 million extremely poor Nigerians.
The World Poverty Clock is a tool used to track poverty progress worldwide.

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) classified 133 million Nigerians as multidimensionally poor.
The Sultan, who spoke in Abuja yesterday at the 2024 first quarterly meeting of the Nigeria Inter-Religious Council (NIREC) with the theme: “The Role of Religious Leaders in Combating Corruption and Cybercrime,” queried why corruption has refused to go in Nigeria.

He stressed the need to commission a study to find out why we are being beleaguered with corruption.
Sultan Abubakar said, “Many who come into office get rich overnight and when they leave office, they become multi-billionaires with private jets. Nobody is bothering to find out how these people (past public officeholders) made their money. He becomes a big man.

“This will continue as we keep on having officeholders that come and become lords doing what they want; give whom they want to give, deny whom they want to deny and the issues continue like that.
“I think it is important for us to look at how our leaders do whatever they want to do – nobody checks you. Nobody will tell you that you’re wrong. After your tenure you leave for you to know that nothing is permanent.

“We will all leave this wretched world whether we like it or not and we will all go into the beyond with nothing. So, why are we amassing so much to the detriment of our fellow human beings that can’t even afford one meal a day.