Tsohuwar Ajiya

Protocol   It is with a great pleasure that I accepted the invitation to be present here with my Ndigbo brothers and sisters and their well-wishers. For me, it is a great moment of the past playing itself presently. I very much cherish the presence of His Royal Highness, the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Dr Ado Bayero, a man who has always stood by fairness and justice. As a member of the defunct NEPU, I can testify before this audience today that, as the Chief of NA Police, Dr Ado Bayero did his utmost best to ensure fairness and justice to the followers of the party in spite of pressures from certain quarters. He is a great personality imbued with considerable human kindness. All of us here know the commendable role he has been playing to ensure peace in his domain. In him, therefore, our Igbo brothers and sisters resident in Kano have a father whom they could always look up to. I really don’t know when the first Igboman set his foot in Kano. For sure, it must have been a long ...

ADDRESS OF HIS EXCELLENCY MALLAM IBRAFIIM SHEKARAU, GOVERNOR OF KANO STATE , AT THE INAUGURATION OF KANO STATE SOCIETAL REORIENTATION PROGRAMME , A DAIDAITA SAHU SATURDAY RAJAB 26, 1425; SEPTEMBER 11, 2004 AT THE SANI ABACHA STADIUM, KANO. Fellow citizens, today I would like to talk to you about one of the most difficult challenges of our time, the challenge to re-orient our society so that our traditional values, the fulcrum upon which our wellbeing and happiness depends, can be restored. Since the inception of this administration, our people everywhere have repeatedly heard the Government talking about societal re-orientation and are with varied emotions waiting to discover what it would mean to their personal and working lives. For many years now, with our sense of moral values severely damaged by corruption, rule of behavior, civility and decency, which the people of Kano were renowned for, are on the decline. And indiscipline in our society is so perva...