The trio of Muhammad Sa 'ad Abubakar 111, the Sultan of Sokoto, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, the Catholic Archbishop of Abuja and the Niger State Governor, Dr. Babangida Aliyu, spoke at the 2013 Annual Conference and Award of Leadership Newspaper in Abuja.
While the Sultan and the Cardinal presented a joint address on how to rebuild Nigeria, Governor Aliyu served as the guest speaker at the ceremony, which conferred awards on eminent Nigerians, among them, Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State, who bagged the Leadership Governor of the Year.
The two clerics who frowned at the pervasive influence of corruption in the nation's polity, asked the government to take urgent steps to halt the malevolent trend if the nation must make progress in the comity of
nations.
The joint address, which was read on behalf of the two clerics by Onaiyekan, noted that the government has been rather too soft on corrupt persons and institutions thereby making it appear as if the monster was being celebrated.
They said, "This stealing must stop. Furthermore, stolen resources of the nation must be recovered and used for the common services for the poor because the stolen money from government treasury belongs to us and not the government.
*AWARD - From left: Akwa Ibom State Governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio, receiving the award of Leadership Newspaper's Governor of the Year, presented by Etsu Nupe, Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar in Abuja yesterday. Photo: Gbemiga Olamikan.
"There is nothing wrong in granting pardon to those who have committed offences, but the government must first of all recover our stolen wealth from corrupt persons before pardoning them.
While acknowledging that there was a religious dimension to the Boko Haram saga, the two religious leaders pleaded with political forces to lend a hand towards finding a lasting solution to the problem.
Religion, an asset not instrument of destabilisation.
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