Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, leader of Muslims in Nigeria and Sultan of Sokoto, who is also a member of the General Abubakar Abdulsalami-led National Peace Committee has declared his full support for President Muhammadu Buhari’s war on corruption.
The highly respected Islamic leader spoke on Monday 17th August, in Abuja, as a keynote speaker, at the National Security Summit, organised by the Nigeria Police, in collaboration with The Sun Publishing Limited.
In his remarks, he said; “At an early stage of the Caliphate, its leaders realized that they needed honest persons at all levels to be able to establish a decent state. ‘Leaders,’ according to (the late) Sultan Muhammad Bello, are like a spring of water and all your officials are like water wheels. If the spring is pure, the filth of the water wheels cannot harm it. If on the other hand, the spring is polluted, the purity of the water wheel will have little effect on the purity of the water. We thank God that our current president is like a spring of water.”
“He shall confiscate whatever is in excess of their legitimate income and, if in doubt, confiscate half of it. To his subjects, he will be ‘as the Shepherd of a flock among ravening lions. “On this note, I call on the president to confiscate the properties of all those who are guilty of corruption. They should be prosecuted and send to jail.
“Our national security agencies must join the crusade against corruption, with commitment and determination. Regardless of how well trained and equipped an organisation is, it cannot attain its full potential if it allows corruption and corrupt elements to grace its corridors. Those who conspire to corrupt our national institutions from the outside must face the same consequences as those who do it from within,”
“I wish to call upon President Buhari, to whenever feasible, institute a national integrity plan, supported by a National Integrity Institute, which shall refocus our ethical, moral and spiritual energies and the indomitable spirit of our people into building a peaceful, prosperous and democratic, the Sultan concluded.
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