Thieves Shouldn\u2019t Be Rewarded With Ministerial Appointments \u2013 Sanusi
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The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has decried the erosion of values among different strata of the Nigerian society.<\/strong><\/p>\n According to him, the Nigerian society must stop rewarding people who stole the nation\u2019s commonwealth as public office holders with more public opportunities.<\/p>\n \u201cThe entire value system of the country has been eroded,\u201d the former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor stated on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today<\/em> programme on Wednesday.<\/p>\n \u201cA society in which material wealth, no matter how you get it, is respected, is glorified, where people who are known to have stolen money get rewarded with ministerial appointments, that society will continue to reproduce itself.<\/p>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t have a sense of disgust for people who hold public office and amass wealth; we reward them with appointments, with more public offices, and more opportunities to amass wealth, and this is what Nigeria has become,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n Sanusi said many people in public offices were not well brought up, and that accounts for their misbehaviour and faulty orientation of the essence of being in public offices. \u201cMany people go into government to make money but you don\u2019t go into government to make money,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have been ruled by people who have no values; they have no name behind them, and they have no desire to leave a name after them. These are people who define themselves by what they own; how many houses they have, how many private jets they have, how many billions they have in bank accounts. And they think that is something.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is not important to them that people look at them and they only see thieves, they see criminals, they see people who have taken the commonwealth. It is simply not important because for them, values do not matter,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n