Give birth to only children you can cater for - Emir of Kano, Sanusi tells Nigerians

The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi has advised Nigerians across the country to ensure they only give birth to children they can cater for.

The Emir of Kano stated this during the Islamic Vocation Course (IVC) organized by the Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN) Zone B.

According to him, the menace of Almajiri plaguing the North is a social issue and not a religious one.

Speaking further, Sanusi advised male Muslims to not marry women more than they can cater for.

“If we continued this way, about 40 per cent extremely poor people will be in Nigeria. Poverty in the South West is 20 percent, in the North, it is 80 percent, Lagos is 8 per cent and Zamfara, it is 91 per cent. “We have been talking about Almajiri for over 30 years. Why are people having families they cannot maintain? Why are people marrying wives that they cannot maintain? The condition is that you are able to provide for your family.

“Instead of having many children, why not have the ones you can cater for? These are the fundamental questions we should ask ourselves. Most of these children roaming about the streets will be adult in the next twenty years and they will be the ones recruited as political thugs by the politicians in the next twenty years, if we don’t take good care of them now. This is my own advice that we must look at. These are not religious issues, they are social issues that need to be addressed”, he said.