ABUJA-THE Sultan of Sokoto, Mohammed Sa’ ad Abubakar, yesterday, warned that the quest for peace in the country may continue to elude it until leaders embrace justice in their actions.

This was even as the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, identified lack of birth control as Nigeria’s biggest problem, saying the development was time-out waiting to explode. They spoke yesterday,in Abuja, at the National Stakeholders’ Summit on the 2019 election integrity, organised by a civil society organization, under the aegis of Youths Off The Street Initiative. The Sultan of Sokoto, while regretting the spate of killings in the country, insisted that resort to justice and equity by those in the affairs of leadership was a panacea to addressing the ugly trend.

He enjoined religious leaders, especially of the Christian and Muslim faith to take active responsibilities in educating adherents of their religions on the need to embrace peace and harmonious living among one another. Hear him:”Leaders across the length and breadth of the country must ensure that justice stand as the strongest of what we must do especially if we want to have a God fearing society.
” We cannot claim to be God fearing when, as a leader, there is no justice in whatever you do.
” If you know the consequences of holding a public office when you are going to face the almighty God, you will not want to hold a public office. People feel you just come into public office, take whatever you want to take, go about in convoys.

” That is not leadership. If you are elected by people, let them come near you so that you feel their pains. You can’t be in an office and nobody comes close to you. A leader must take decision concerning his people by consultations. ” You don’t just wake up and enact a law that is totally against my freedom. These are things that we must continue to speak out as religious and traditional rulers.
“There is nothing to fear about because if we don’t tell the truth, it will one day work against you and you will find yourself in a bad place and you will be struggling to get out of it and you won’t be able to. God is a merciful God,
“He is for all and is not a wicked God. He is mainly with the downtrodden and He hears their cry faster that the leaders.
“If you hear so much cry, then something is wrong with the leadership and that leadership must take correction so that we see how to get things right. As religious leaders we must come together and realize that there are so many thing we have in common than the few things that we lead us astray and those few things can lead you to hell fire as religious leaders. We must be very serious about how
we do things as religious leaders and if we want to have a country.



Source:https://www.infonewsnigeria.com/discussion/2090/killings-there-can-t-be-peace-without-justice-says-sultan?new=1


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God will serve his own justice on them. This country is built on deceit, and for peace to reign we have to stop deceiving ourslvs. There is a common enemy for us to fight...Too much blood shed in the land, insecurity and other social vices..God save this country we're on the brink of doom.