{"id":21427,"date":"2019-10-10T20:28:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T20:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=21427"},"modified":"2019-10-10T20:28:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T20:28:13","slug":"video-sanusi-weeps-narrates-how-sick-child-died-in-mothers-arms-over-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=21427","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Sanusi Weeps, Narrates How Sick Child Died In Mother\u2019s Arms Over $5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, shed tears on Thursday as he decries the alarming rate of inequalities in the country.<br \/><br \/> According to him, the inequalities in society have caused so much hardship with the poor paying the ultimate sacrifice.<br \/><br \/> The traditional ruler made the submission as he gave an emotional address at a United Nations meeting to reach Sustainable Development Goals in Lagos.<br \/><br \/> He sobbed as he narrated an unfortunate situation where a mother could not save her sick child, despite being close to getting help.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sanusi Weeps, Narrates How Sick Child Died In Mother\u2019s Arms Over $5\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vufgz4P-Jis?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sanusi told the gathering at the event that on that fateful day, the woman had walked to the palace from a children\u2019s hospital located just about 200 metres.<br \/><br \/> According to him, he heard a very loud scream and asked someone to check what happened while the person who came back with tears in his eyes.<br \/><br \/> The emir said the baby died in the mother\u2019s arms while she was waiting for her turn to ask for money to buy the drug to save her child.<br \/><br \/> \u201cAnd how much was this? It was less than five dollars,\u201d an emotional Sanusi said.<br \/><br \/> He added, \u201cThis 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.\u201d<br \/><br \/> By Channels Television<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, shed tears on Thursday as he decries the alarming rate of inequalities in the country. According to him, the inequalities in society have caused so much hardship with the poor paying the ultimate sacrifice. The traditional ruler made the submission as he gave an emotional address at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":17948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}