The Chief Mission of the Ansar U Deen Society of Nigeria (ADS), Abdulrahman Ahmad has said there is a new and complex type of poverty ramming the northern region of Nigeria even it is very complex.
“It is a very complex situation and I’ll tell you this, there’s poverty in the north, there is a lot of poverty.
“Even now as we speak there’s a lot of poverty in the north not an ordinary poverty but a special kind of poverty as there are generation that are condemned to poverty you know and there seems to be a social connivance to this”.
He said to an extent poverty played a role in the birth of the Islamic sect but it is not poverty that is responsible for what Nigerians are witnessing now rather a backfire, backfire in the sense that it is the result of politicians who take advantage of these people with low level of education, marginalisation and disenchantment to front their political ambition.