Barely 24 hours after some hoodlums looted public and private properties during Thursday protest, the Emir of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi II has urged looters to voluntarily return all stolen goods to rightful owners.
Sanusi who made the call at a press conference in his palace on Friday, urged parents, guardians, religious and community leaders to compel those who pertook in the looting of the properties.
“When people steal goods they always find a buyer, let us try and refuse to buy stolen goods and instead encourage those young men and women to return those goods to their owners.”
“Today is a sad day for the people of Kano as we reflect over the events of yesterday. The violence of yesterday was what scholars and leaders kept warning against the possibility that miscreants and agents of destruction would hijack peaceful demonstrations and use that opportunity to cause mayhem which led to loss of lives and destruction of properties and injuries to countless people.”
” As we said during the stakeholders meeting, any violence in Kano only hurts Kano, it hurts innocent people. The young people who died are our children, the properties that was burnt and stolen belongs to the people of Kano.”
“We have set ourselves back. The printing press that was burnt will have to be rebuilt, the machines will have to be bought and these are funds that could have gone into youth empowerment, into poverty alleviation, into education, healthcare and nutrition and addressing the very problems that we are protesting against. Emir Sanusi lamented.
The Emir further called on the public to avoid buying stollen goods and ask those who bring them to return them to where they looted them from.
He finally prayed for the reposed souls of those that lost their lives and property.
Ahmad Sorondinki
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