Commending Sultan of Sokoto’s bravery II Inside Stuff
05 December 2020 |
11:30 am
On Sunday, some Northern elders commended the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar 111 for summoning the courage to speak on the deplorable security situation in the North.
Today, on ‘Inside Stuff,’ multi-award-winning columnist and Executive Head of The Guardian's Editorial Board, Martins Oloja, talks about how the Sultan of Sokoto comment on insecurity, poverty, and the effect of insecurity in the North cannot be ignored, as he’s speaking to his people who are in charge of the security of the nation, also using the Sultan’s comment to advice the commander in chief to review the operations architecture of security in the country.
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