The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu
Sanusi II, on Thursday openly wept over the economic challenges Nigerians face.
This occurred as the monarch gave
an address at a United Nations meeting on Sustainable Development Goals in
Lagos.
The Emir narrated how a mother
could not save her sick child, despite being close to getting help.
Sanusi told the gathering that
the woman had walked to the palace from a children’s hospital located just
about 200 metres.
According to him, he heard a very
loud scream and asked someone to check what happened but the person only came
back with tears in his eyes.
The emir said the baby died in
the mother’s arms while she was waiting for her turn to ask for money to buy
the drug to save her child.
“And how much was this? It was
less than five dollars,” Channels TV quoted him as saying.
He added, “This is what happens
every day in this country.
“Children die because their
parents cannot afford five dollars, that a mother will watch her child die
because she does not have five dollars.”
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