Controversial Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has lamented the widening imbalance in the socio-economic condition of Nigerians.
He said it was worrisome that the majority of Nigerians are poor while others are flying around in private jets.
According to him, insecurity would continue to fester until something was done to holistically address the imbalance.
Sheikh Gumi spoke Tuesday in a State of the Nation broadcast aired by Channels Television.
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“We have made available to hold whoever has any ambition or interest in our country. We have made available for him soldiers he can conscript to his own interest, readily available.
“So why do we leave our children uneducated? Why is not education for everybody? Why do we leave our population poor? Some Nigerians are riding private jets when some Nigerians don’t know where to put their children in school.
“On the social justice, if you go to the court system, justice is not there. There is a portent cutdown of power. Normally, what I mean by power, the firebrick of power is broken down whether at the federal, the state or local government. So children are there to be used by anybody,” the cleric stated.