Taraba State Protects Genocide Suspects As National Assembly Look On

Taraba State Government Is Protecting Genocide Suspects While the Presidency and National Assembly Looks On

The Letter

Evidence has emerged of the Taraba State Government officially requested the State Commissioner of Police to release suspects of Mambila genocide. The letter containing the request - or directive - by the Attorney-General of the State was published by an online newspaper, Nigeriandaily today.

The Attorney-General did not deny nor confirm the letter when contacted by the newspaper even though he refused to give an email address through which it can be sent to him. The excuse he gave for demanding their release was that the state government has constituted a commission of inquiry on the crisis. So , in his judgement, the suspects are subjected to “double jeopardy” and their arrest is itself a “contempt” of the proceedings of the Commission. Shi ke nan. With that simple excuse, they are let off the hook.

Genocide Structure

People can now see how we have in operation a judicial structure that allows perpetrators of genocide and crimes against humanity to go Scot-free. This is exactly what happened in Plateau and Kaduna States in the past. State governments sponsoring killings of some ethnic groups use judicial offices under their control to ensure that the hired perpetrators are not punished. El-rufai is not popular among many southern Kaduna elite because he proved to be too intelligent to permit their usual impunity.

Over the years, governors with genocidal plans lobby for the deployment to their state of a commissioner of police of their choice, someone who has the same criminal inclination or can easily be compromised with money. Of course, the Attorney-General and Commisioner of Justice of the state must be genocide-compliant. Under him is the Director of Public Prosecution with the same mentally deficient calibration. No case will even reach the High Court, where judges of the same ethnic or religious background and supporters of the same genocide agenda are deliberately situated to lay ambush on justice. If for political pressure or any reason a case against their own would reach them, they are ever ready to frustrate it. That is the superstructure of genocide in our country. (By the way, if the nation will make the mistake to empower states with their state police, all minorities and political opponents of these killer-governors will perish in a matter of months.)

That is how it worked in Plateau throughout the years of merciless killings of “non-indigenes” in the state. For most part of Jang’s tenure, he influenced the posting of police to the state. By 2012, all heads of Federal security agencies in the state were Christian. Also, no CP from the Muslim North was posted to the state since Abubakar (2001) until the end of his tenure. The CP, for example, would come and meet a police force that is specifically deployed to the state for the purpose. Alhaji Saleh Bayari, the then National Secretary of Miyetti Allah, once published a whole list of police officers who were transferred out of the state but returned to the state immediately at the instance of the state governor, David Jonah Jang. There are allegations that the massacres that took place in places like Kuru and 40 other Hausa settlements in January 2010 were led by some of these officers.

The same thing happened in Kaduna during the 2011 general elections. Benue Commissioner of Police then, John Haruna, was transferred to Kaduna. Under his eyes the massacres in Southern Kaduna happened, especially the extensive one in Zonkwa. Though there were even videos of the killings recorded by security agents, to date, nobody was arrested or prosecuted. CP John Haruna got an accelerated promotion to Deputy Inspector-General of Police (Operations). Unfortunately, after a short while, he died in a helicopter crash in Jos. Yakowa, the State Governor, for whose victory the massacres were carried out, and Azazi, the National Security Adviser at the time of the massacres, like DIG Haruna, also perished in a plane crash while he he victims of the Southern Kaduna 2011 massacres were still in IDP camps in Mando. Oh God of justice!

For the successful execution of any genocide, these are the kind of elaborate (in)security structures that must be established. The result has always been the same in Nigeria: innocent victims, like the sedentary Fulani in Mambila, are killed and the perpetrators continue to live unhindered to encourage further massacres. The credit of the peace enjoyed now in Plateau goes solely to the State Governor who chose to discontinue the genocidal agenda of his predecessors. Without political patronage, the criminal structure collapsed like a pack of cards immediately after 2015 elections. Ethno-religious crisis thrives on government political support, funding and protection.

Yet, the Federal Government has continued to also pay lip service to such situations. Its agents in the states are easily compromised with money and sentiments of religion and ethnicity. The victims remain hopeless. This is what led to reprisal attacks, beginning with Dogo Nahauwa, in 2012, eleven years after the genocidal killings of Jos started. Painful as the attacks were, I regret to note that they started a peace process. The Federal Government initiated the first face-to-face meeting between Fulani and Berom. Though attacks and reprisal attacks continued, the egalitarian distribution of pain made it easier to unplug ears deafened by the state impunity.

Buhari

The Federal Government under Buhari, unfortunately and against all expectations, also appears unwilling to stand up for justice. It expresses concern only when there is a loud noise in the country against a reprisal attack. To date, Mambila, which saw the cold blood massacre of 727 Nigerians and over 80 others missing, has not shaken any nerve of the administration. The massacre does not enjoy the recognition that the President would give to the killing of a fly. This is what is emboldening Governor Darius to continue laying the foundation for a crisis of enormous proportion through his anti-grazing law. He has started training a militia that he tags anti-herdsmen marshals.

As if Mambila was a ground to test the will of the President, who, unfortunately for the poor citizens of Taraba, is found wanting. Office, for him, is thicker than blood. He will continue to be preoccupied with his 2019 re-election business, reconciling with his ex-supporter-politicians, while thousands will be killed in the next few months in the state without a whimper from his lips. By the time he regroups his 2019 foot soldiers, the President will be surprised to discover that the ground for winning the elections has been completely eroded by the crises he was indifferent to, as Boko Haram eroded the ground for Jonathan’s reflection in 2015. If Buhari cannot stand up to protect the lives of Nigerians, he will not be fit for re-election next year. Quote me. The country should try someone else and continue trying until it stumbles on someone who has the muscle to protect the weak and the balls to confront impunity.

United Nations

We will continue to press for justice for Mambila victims even if it will be before the United Nations. The world since 1917 knows that politicians, if left unchecked, can degenerate into animals which have no regard for the fundamental rights of citizens that do not belong to their party, religion or tribes. Hence, the formulation of Geneva conventions and the court in Haig to try people like Taylor, Milosovic, Karadic and Miladic.

Nigeria too has its bunch of Taylors, Milosovics and Miladics. We only need to expose them. They can collude to temporarily distance their agents of genocide from the law.  But when the time comes, their guilt will be pronounced in a land far away from a President whose silence they read as approval - that is if divine justice is not fast enough to catch up with them as it overtook some of their predecessors.

National Assembly

The National Assembly gave the IGP two weeks to produce suspects of the 72 that were allegedly killed in Benue State recently. They should have the balance of justice that should make them issue another directive to the IGP: let him produce the suspects arrested for killing over 800 Nigerians in Mambila last year. We have their list, town by town. Can I hear the voice of Shehu Sani and his like standing up in the Red Chamber this week and making this demand after the AG in Taraba demanded for their release?

Doubtful.

Dr. Aliyu U. Tilde
22 January 2018

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ABUJA: Country Yoghurt is Here

t is with a combination of pleasure, humility and hope that we submitted our product – Country Yoghurt – yesterday to, perhaps, the largest yoghurt market in West Africa – Abuja – for taste and subsequent patronage.

As it was well received and accepted in other towns that we have been delivering to (Bauchi, Gombe, Jos, Kano, Kaduna, Zaria, Enugu, Yola and Jalingo), we are hopeful that Abuja market too will be a very bright one given that we have tried our best to present the city something unique.

The product, which comes in 50cl and 100cl, is sold in Abuja as in other places: N300 for ½ litre bottle, and N600 for 1 litre bottle, "only". (Enugu and Jalingo may be selling N100 above the normal rate due to transportation cost incurred by the distributor who picks it from Jos and Gombe respectively).

You can pick your choice at any of the following shops, NOW:

MAITAMA:

1. Maitama Stores
2. Blueberry Stores
3. Farmers’ Shops

GARKI:

1. Garki Store
2. Borno Restaurant
3. Durumi2
4. A.A. provision store
5. Man of peace store

WUSE:

1. Amigo Junction

APO (Zone E shopping complex):

1.Sci Pharmacy Store
2. Fahab Store

GWARIMPA:

1. Danjam supermarket
2. Nadrem Supermarket
3. Chicken and Side

GAMES VILLAGE (NEAR GATE):

1. Pharmacare
2. Sekmarkt Supermarket
3. H.Medix Stores

This is the beginning. If there is any outlet close to you that you may wish us to supply, please indicate it in your comment below or send a Facebook message to me or SMS 08137661860. We have not finalized with Yahuza Suya and Dankoli while Sahad (Garki) has told us that there is no space in their present complex. We will be very glad if someone will help us plead with the big three on our behalf.

KADUNA

We have resumed our supply to Kaduna and Zaria after the failure of our distributors. We will now be handling it directly along with the supply to Abuja and Kano. The yoghurt can be purchased at the following shops

1. ABC Supermarket, at Alkali Rd by Murtala Square
2. Wammako Supermarket, Badarawa
3. Yahuza Suya, Sultan Rd
4. Kantin Sauki, Kasuwar Barci
5. Kantin Sauki, Kwanar Chanchangi.
6. Masallacin Matafiya, Old toll-gate

ZARIA

1. Duberry Supermarket, Zaria city (today)
2. Nasiha Restaurant, Kwangila (later in the month)

This week is a start. The number of outlets will grow every week, God willing.

So pick a bottle and share your experience with us here. Regular supplies will commence next week, God willing. And do not forget to suggest more outlets for us.

Allah hokku sa’a.

Thank you all.

12 May 2013

Yanfashi a Kasar Hausa

Na jira cikin dare har na yi barci ban ji dirin babbar motar da ta kai
yoghurt Kano da sauran garuruwa ta dawo ba. Yakamata a ce ta iso wajen
karfe 12 na dare tunda mun yi waya da magariba suna shirin barin
Kano.

Da safe sai na kira na tambaya ko lafiya? Sai yara suka ce mun lafiya.
Barayi ne suka datse hanya kafin gadar Wudil na tsawon lokaci jiya
bayan lisha. Ganin haka, da kuma da ma barci shi ma yana neman
satarsu, sai suka juya Kano suka kwana.

Mu da muke sashin Arewa-maso-Gabas da Arewa-ta-Tsakiya, sau da yawa, a
da, mukan yi mamakin jin barayi na fashi a manyan hanyoyin Arewa-maso-Yamma saboda dalilai uku.

Na daya dai ba su da dazuka irin namu ta
yadda dan fashi zai bace cikinsu kafin ka ce kwabo. Tabarkallah, a Kasar
Hausa, duk inda ka duba filin gona ne a gefen hanya ya tafi har iyakar ganinka. Da rani kuwa filin Allah ta'ala ne kawai a shimfide. Sau nawa nake shiga motata in
mata kik, ta tashi, daga Zaria mu doshi Sakwwato cikin dare, ko Argungu
mu isa da Asuba, ba ma tsoron komai sai dai na bacin motar? Sau nawa zan
bar Sakkwato da Magariba in nufi Jos, ko bauchi, balle kuma Zaria ko Kaduna ba tare da tababa ba?

Mu kuwa a gurarenmu akwai dazukan da kai kanka in kana tuki a cikinsu,
ka san sai kiyayewar Ubangiji. In ka bar Kano, kana shiga dajin
Falgore ka san addu'a ta kama ka har ka iso Jos; haka in ka bar Bauchi
za ka je Yola; Ko Gombe za ka Maiduguri; Ko Yola zuwa Jalingo; Ko Jos
za ka Abuja, balle kuma a ce ka nufi Makurdi ko Ilorin. Ko wannan motar da ta
fita zuwa Abuja a zangonta na farko cikin zagayenta na sai da Yoghurt,
ai sun iske motoci sun tsaya cirko-cirko tsakanin Barde da Keffi suna
jiran yan fashi su bude hanya. Wannan bai bani mamaki ba, don kuwa na
san a rina. Amma Wudil? Haba jama'a!
Na biyu, Arewa-maso-Yamma bata da yawan kabilu kamar sauran Arewa. A
shekarun baya, na aza musulmi ba zai taba aikata mummunan laifi kamar
fashi ba. Hasali ma, fashi muna ganin kawai 'yankudu ne suke
yinsa, musamman Inyamurai da rikakkun Yarbawa irin shegun Legas din nan.
Amma a samu bahaushe, ko bafilatani, ko Kanuri yana fashi ai abu ne da
wallahi ba mu taba zata za mu ganshi a rayuwarmu ba. Kai in ma za a
samu a Arewa, kila sai dai cikin kananan kabilunmu wanda addinin
kirista bai ratsa jikinsu ba.

Amma ina? A kwana a tashi, sai ga nesa ta zo kusa. Ba kabilu ba kawai,
ba kuma cikin yan iskan mazauna birni ba, fashi da makami har ya zama
al'ada cikin mutanen daji, Filani da ko kadan ba a sansu da aikata
abun kunya ba balle muggan laifuka irin wannan. Inji wani mawaki,
"karyar wa'de-wa'de ta kare ga dan Filani na sai da giya." A lokacin
nan giya ce abun mamaki a ga bafillace na yi; a yau, har fashi ya shiga yi. Yan'uwansu
Hausawa su ma sun sa kai. Sau da yawa ka ji kauyawa sun datse
hantse hanya tsakanin Takai da Wudil, ko tsakanin Wudil da Kano, ko
tsakanin Gusau da Mafara. Abun ba a cewa komai.

Abu na karshe, shi ne Arewa maso Yamma sun fi koina yawan jama'a
cikin Arewa. Tunda garuruwansu na da girma kuma kauyukansu kusa suke
da juna, sun fi sauran gurare samun daman kawo dauki da saukin kama
masu laifi. Ashe ba a nan take ba. Abun ya zama ruwan dare gama
duniya. Kuma tunda maza sun zama mata kuma ba mai niyyar kai wa
danuwansa dauki, yan fashi hatta a Arewa-maso-Yamma sa ci karensu ba
babbaka.

Amma duk wannan damuwar ta zamanin yanzu ne kawai. In an duba tarihi
kafin zuwan turawa, ai nan ne ma yanfashi suke sheke ayarsu. A wani
fannin ma, gara yanfashin yanzu. A da, kusan kowane daji a kasar Hausa
cike ya ke da yanfashi. Za su tsare matafiya, su wawashe musu dukiya,
kuma a lokuta da yawa su mai da su bayi. Yanfashin wancan lokacin sun
rika, don har tawagar sarakuna suke hanawa sakat. Akwai shekarar da a
zamanin Sarkin Musulmi, Abdu Danyen Kasko, lokacin hukumar daular
Sakkwato ta yi rauni, tawagar kyautar shekara-shekara ta sarakunan
gabas ta kasa tafiya Sokoto saboda tsoron zaratan yanfashi da ke cikin
dajin Rugu da sauran dazukan da ke hanyar Sakkwato. A lokacin, dajin na da yawa sosai don Shehu Abdullahin
Gwandu da tawagar mutum biyar da suka bar Sakkwato da niyyar
komawa Madina sai da suka yi tafiyar sati biyu a ciki ba mahalukin da
suka gamu da shi banda giwaye da sauran namun daji.

A yau ma hukunci ya yi rauni shi ya sa fashi ya dawo kasar Hausa. Ba a
hukunta mai laifi. Yoto wa zai hukunta shi, bayan mahakuntan kansu
barayi ne, ko mu ce gaggan yanfashi ne su ma? A zamanin turawa kuwa
zuwa lokacin su Sardauna, hukuma na da karfi. Dandoka daya kawai ake
da shi a gari amma tsit ka ke ji. Mai lafi kuwa, ko ya shiga daji,
dandokan nan shi kadai, ko dogarin sarki, zai zakulo shi. Allah sarki.
Jiya ba yau ba. Kowa ya tuna bara bai ji dadin bana ba.

To ba yanda muka iya. Tafiya dai ba za mu daina ta ba. Ba mahalukin da
zai hana mu walawa da neman halal. Ga bankuna nan sun sauwake
al'amurra. Ta hanyar waya sai ka yi tiransifa na kudi zuwa abokin
huldarka a gari mai nisa, ba tare da ka dau miliyoyi a bayan mota ba.
Nan gaba kadan, na'urar POS za ta wadata. Duk wanda ya sayi hajarka ba
sai ya biya nakadan ba. Sai kawai ya sulluba katin ATM dinsa a jiki,
kudin su shiga ba tare da wuri na gugan wuri ba. Yanfashi sai dai su
kare da karbar wayoyin matafiya da dan canjin da ke aljihunsu. Wayoyin
su ma kwanannan za su zama hadari a hannun yanfashin don kuwa in
kowace waya aka sa mata 'bi sawu', watau tracker, to za ta tseguntawa
mai ita inda ta ke, wuf sai jami'an tsaro su diran ma danfashin. Daga
nan su yanfashin za su gane ba riba a harkar ta su. Kafin a jima sai
su bar harkar tunda dai don lada ake salla.
Allah ya dawo mana da aminci a Arewa da sauran Najeriya baki daya.

Abun da ya rage shi ne kowa sai ya dau matakan tsaro da kiyayewa.
Matafiya, a dawo lafiya.

21 Satumba, 2013

Passing by the Kotokoshi Mountain

My sojourn to some West African counties by road is closing. The voice of its farewell overwhelms me as I approach home through the familiar landscapes Hausaland. By the Kotorkoshi Mountain, the first igneous rock range I will come across since I entered Burkina Faso, I instantly recalled
Golobo's poem that described his visit to Ibadan:

"Mai da ni gida
Jalla Rabbana
Inda na ke
Nuna na isa
Har da kira-
Ri gareni can
Dutsen Kwatarkwashi
Mai wuyar iza
Ni cinnaka
Mai shiga jiki."

By any measure, Golobo's trip to Western Nigeria was a disaster. In the poem, he listed the difficulties he faced of unemployment, sleeping in motor parks, markets and under the flyover.

One day, defeated by hardship, nostalgia crept into his broken heart. Like the improvisation of Abu Zaid in the Assemblies, he composed this poem, lamenting his troubles and praying for a return home. In it he paid tribute to the unassailable Kotorkoshi mountain with which he likened his tough character back home.

"Na kwana tasha
Na kwana kassuwa
Na kwana gadaaaa
Wadda ba ruwaaaa
Ni ba aiki wanda za nayi

"Mai da ni gida
Jalla Rabbana
Inda na ke
Nuna na isa
Har da kira-
ri gareni can
Dutsen Kwatarkwashi
Mai wuyar iza
Ni cinnaka
Mai shiga jiki.

Ruwa da kada
Ku kyale mai shiga
Ya shigo gulbi
Ban tare shi ba"

With him I repeat

Mai da ni gida
Jalla Rabbana...

But my kirari is different. It used to please my late mother (may God have mercy on her) to spoil me whenever I did something that pleased her, saying:

Ali gadanga kusar yaki
Mo'di boodi maagani rewdu!

Leave her and her metaphor! I never swallowed a snake when I had stomach ache. Don't attempt it when you have any.

The Distinction of Hausaland

Yesterday as I took the Sheme - Dayi shortcut to Kano, the realisation of a landscape unique to Hausaland occurred to me. It is the only place I have seen so far where humans through manual labour maintain a continuum of farms that sustain them. Every arable hectare, except that under official conservation, is tilled.

Approach Hausaland from any direction -Ningi, Saminaka, Kaduna, Birnin Gwari, kontagora, Birnin Kebbi, Argungu, Illela, Sabon Birni, Shinkafi, Jibiya, Maiadua, Maigatari, Potiskum, Azare, Darazo and Sara, the story is the same: farmland, farmland, farmland - complete green during the rainy season and brown dry during the dry deason except for valleys under irrigation. Everywhere, the farms go as far as the eyes can see, without limit.

This has a lot of significance. It attests to the continuity of the culture of hardwork among the populations living in this area for hundreds of years. Leo Afticanus was perhaps the first to make that known to the world. Later, the testimonies of Clapperton, Barth, Morrel and many administrative staff of the British Empire came. And we are today registering same.

A population that feeds itself has solved more than half of its problems and has very little to fear for the future. It might not boast of the luxury items of the industrial world but majority of its population can be self-employed and with little investment, as we see often see in commercial irrigation and livestock, it can acquire those luxury items through sheer hardwork, not through theft, robbery or looting public treasury.

This explains why in rural Hausaland, until poll tax (haraji) and jangali (cattle tax) were stopped during the Secind Republic, unemployment was literally unknown. Now, there is an army of youth, taken off the farmland with the promise of modern education and urban life but who, after completion of school, are left illiterates as ever with no job at sight. If only they would return to this long tradition of sweating it out on the farm, especially with the growing demand for cash crops, their lives would have changed for the better and forever.

This point must be emphasised as we insist that every child gets basic education. The population of our country is increasing dramatically. In forty years there will be not less than 500 million Nigerians. Then, oil would be losing its value due to advances in alternative energy. It will also then be clear who the parasite would be.

Note that I am not saying that other areas are not farming. But the degree elsewhere can nowhere be compared to that of Hausaland.

Politically, the millions of farmland in the area corroborates the figures of INEC. The Northwest has the highest voter register. People must be cultivating these farms manually, not by spirits or even machines. Other zones are less populated becuase they either don't have sufficient landmass, like the Southwest, or the population is smaller even though there is sufficient landmass, like the Northeast, hence the huge breaks in land under cultivation there.

Gaishe ku manoma! You are the hosts. Others are the parasites.

The Last Vegetation Tunnel

Tunnels are supposed to be of hard sunstances: rock, concrete or earth. When one is made of vegetation, we must behold its beauty.

My first taste of that beauty was on my first trip to Kano in 1976. Then, at 20 or so kilometers to the city, you would be encapsulated by a canopy of large Khaya senegalensis (Madaci, Mahogany) trees. Their micro-atmosphere of such canopies was cool and soft in contrast to the heat of bare surfaces that you left behind. It was an amazing sight for the little teen I was then.

Later, as I drove around the country and also live in the city for some time, I would come across those vegetation tunnels on many roads and in many northern cities, especially in the GRAs.

The most spectacular was the one that once stood on the mountainous link between Kagoro and Gidan Waya in Southern Kaduna. Wao! Wao!! Wao!!! That was my exclamation when I drove through it in 1996.

But it was predated my experience of the Tureta one in 1983 when I travelled to Sokoto for the first time to attend an interview as a graduate assistant at University of Sokoto. It appeared from afar like a green tunnel with a small hole in the middle. We approached it and, behold, it was a chain of canopies of Azaridacta indica (Neem) trees. I would enjoy them for the next ten years of my stay there.

Two days ago, I noticed that the Tureta vegetation tunnel was gone. The trees have been pruned heavily. The one at Kagoro-Gidan Waya link was also swept away when the trees were felled four years or so back. Also, only a sparsely populated row shelters vehicles on their left wing as they approach Kano now innsfew spots. Likewise the GRA canopies have become thinner, though they still exist in many towns.

The trees have been thinned pursuant to the new FERMA concept of "vegetation control" that hopes to offer motorists better visibility, avoid hindrance to vehicle tops and improve security. In the GRAs and most township roads, dualisation of roads necessistated to felling of the buffer trees.

I was the criminal who felled all the front raw trees along Independence Way and Mando Road, Kaduna, in 1997 when Straburg was contracted their dualization by PTF. Fortunately, the second row served as a backup, thanks to the good planning by the Public Works (PWD, or "Birabiddi" as our parents usrd to call it) and Forestry Departments of the then Northern Nigeria, which were doing their work professionally.

Buffer plantings, as we call them, were essential parts of town planning throughout Northern Nigeria then. From Otukpo to Sokoto, from Ilorin to Maiduguri, every government estate, house, school, hospital or township road was adequately sheltered by trees. The Sardauna and his foresters, from the pictures of that era, did not enjoy the canopies before the trees could fully form. But through their vision, we came to enjoy the cool weather of the schools, hospitals and urban roads. Remember them in your prayers whenever you drive through such canopies wherever you find them.

It is unfortunate that the culture of buffer planting was abandoned from 1976 after the Gowon era. Successive governments, with the exception of few establsihments, built roads and estates without planting a single tree. Compare, for example, the State and Federal lowcosts housing estates with the Old GRA in Bauchi. Even the new "Gida Dubu" (Gubi Estate) and Tambari Housing Estate were completed and inhabited without planting a single tree.

Billions could be spent on buildings, but not a dime could be spared to shelter it with overhead vegetation. Sometimes the cost is initially included in the bill of quantities but it is often abandoned at completion when the project struggles to finish due to underfunding. If ever awarded, the contract of planting is often awarded to girl friends and other non-professionals who know little about trees. Sometimes too much emphasis is paid to flowers and lawns that are temporary, very expensive and very difficult to maintain at the detriment of trees that are everlasting.

Thanks to the efforts of the FCDA, central Abuja is rescued from the environmental insensitivity of our planners and officials. But still, I wonder why the same authority leaves private estate developers in the city to go free after felling thousands of trees and failing to plant a single one. Gwarimpa Estate, arguably, the largest housing estate in West Africa, was, like the Bauchi estates I mentioned earlier, completed and inhabited without planting a single tree. I hope the FCDA will wake up to its respinsibility here.

We also applaud here the efforts of state governments that are making efforts in this regard. Jigawa is a good example. It has been planting millions of trees int the last seven years on road sides and establishments through its Ministry of Environment.

The picture in this post is that of the last vegetation tunnel I saw in a village before Tureta. As I drove my truck past it, I managed to capture it because it may not be there when next I return. It would have then fallen victim to the ravage of FERMA.

Let us revive the culture of tree planting and greening our environment. If people in the 1930s up to 1970s who did not have our level of exposure could do it, I can find no reason for our collective failure here. This is the greatest shortcoming of man according to Al-Mutanabi:

"Wa lam ara fi 'uyubin naasi 'aiban
Ka naqsil qaadiriina alat tamaami."

Meaning

"I have not found a worse shortcoming in men like the failure of the able to accomplish."

Aliyu

Brachiaria Pasture

This pasture was planted 3 months ago from seeds obtained from NAPRI/ABU. It is one of the best pasture grasses for cattle. It is so sweet that I have seen cows seize it from each other's mouth.The one hectre grown here is a trial plot which we intend to extend to five next year.

At maturity, just 2 wks after the last rain of the season (in November possibly), it will be harvested, dried and baled. It can be served whenever needed. The beauty of these grasses lies in their perennial habit. Just plant them once and continue to harvest them for 100 years and more. All you need to do is to fertilize them annually and avoid overgrazing. At the beginning of each rainy season, the cattle can lightly graze on them before they are withdrawn to allow growth during the last two months of the rainy season. If you can irrigate them during the dry season, you can harvest it up to three or four times a year.

The yield is spectacular. Total dry matter, a specialist told me, can reach up to 25 tonnes per hectre. Wao! Wao! Wao! Imagine what you can get with even a modest land of 5 hectres: 125 tonnes!!! Ya Salaam! Ku tashi mu farka yan Arewa, ku san barci aikin kawai ne!

Some tips are important for us the beginners, though. From our very little experience on this grass and on Chloris gayana, pasture grasses need well drained, fertile soils for good establishment. So make sure that you choose a drained land, fill it with manure and apply a non-selective herbicide before soil preparation (ploughing and harrowing). Then apply fertilizer, especially urea, once or twice as required as it grows. You will need to weed it, manually is the best, just once, a month or so after planting. Once it picks up, this grass can overcome any weed dramatically. Just do the above and see wonders. For better advice, please contact Dr. Kalla and Dr. Sabo at NAPRI, arguably, the best pasture specialists around.

It is surprising that these grasses along with exotic cattle breeds were introduced during the defunct northern region in the 1950s. (Remember the song of Illon Kalgo: Gonar Bakura, gonar Sardauna.) Yet, over half a century, we have failed to make them commonplace in the country. Since the discovery of oil and the corruption that it engendered, everything else was abandoned. In Bauchi State, the farms at Azare, Galambi and Gubi were among those established by the defunct Northeastern State government. Of the three, the one at Gubi, along Bauchi-Kano road, is the smallest: 800 hectares! All the three lie waste. The cattle were looted by military administrators and the pastures overtaken by weeds and shrubs. All are abandoned. Give me 800 hectres and see what I will transform it into. A beg, 50 hectres sef!

I wonder what has happened to other similar farms established by that government in today's Borno, Adamawa, Yobe, Taraba and Gombe states.

I wonder when we will wake up. The truth is that we lack continuity both at public and private levels. I have seen many such farms abandoned after the death of their founders. The inheritors simply let them ruin, finally sell the land away in millions and naira and share the booty. The old man will be crying in his grave. A year later, the money is gone.

As I establish these pastures, I also wonder how long would mine last after my death, which is just by the corner anyway.

The Magic Silage

While we in the Northeast continue to mourn our deaths and the loss of our towns and villages to terrorists in connivance with some unscruplous elements among those that have been trained and paid for decades to defend us (Ihejirika and Sheriff are yet to come up with a convincing defence), those of us enjoying some degree of peace must continue to work hard to do feed the nation, a job that this region is best known for. Already, we are running a food deficit, given that millions of hectares that cannot be cultivated in areas under the old Kanem-Borno Empire.

In this picture, a 60-year old forage harvester is seen cutting my maize crop in bits and pieces and piling it on the 6m x 8m x 2m silage platform that we built two weeks ago.

Silage is an animal feed made by harvesting plant crops, chiefly maize, when it starts grain filling and cutting the stalks, with the cops intact, into small pieces using a forage harvester or even manually using a machetes if necessary. The cut pieces are piled in a trench or on a platform on which a polythene sheet (leda, Hausa) is spread.

As the forage mound is piled, urea and salt can be added to increase the crude nitrogen content of the silage and improve its palatability (taste) to the animals. The silage also needs to be compacted, usualy done with a tractor driving forward and backward on it.

After the mound of forage cuttings is complete, another sheet is used to cover it in continuity with the one below such that the enveloped mound of forage below is both water- and airtight.

Finally, after it is compacted and covered with the polythene sheet, the silage mound is further covered with soil to a thickness of at least 4 inches. This will give further support to the sheet and serve as a weight that will help further compact the silage and expel its water as much as possible.

Now here comes the magic of silage: you have burried it fresh green now; you can open it and use it to feed your animals any time after 3 months. If you decide to use it after six years, Mr. Silage will be there waiting for you, still looking green and fresh. Take it in bits everyday and serve it to the animals. Wao! Wao!! Wao!!!

No doubt, my cows will be smiling. When I started serving them its meal in 2006, I heard them say, through their eagerness to grab it, "We have never tasted something better. God bless you Dr."

With enough hay, silage and, if you like, a little concentrate, your animals would not need to graze outside. They can remain in their pen for 12 months a year.

The villagers think I am mad, cutting down maize without harvesting its grains or planting grass for cattle instead of maize or guinea corn for people.

However, I am convinced that I am wiser, if only they know:
Bye-bye to contagious bovine diseases; welcome peace, plenty milk, beef and a waxing bank account.

8 September 2014

Nigerian Military, Yesterday and Today

By Dr. Aliyu U. Tilde

In 1983, some Chadian soldiers invaded some communities in Nigeria. Chad had been in a prolonged civil war and its soldiers were known to be ruthless.

Nigerian armed forces were under the simple going but honest President Alhaji Shehu Shagari as its Commander-in-Chief and the COAS or CDS was Wushishi (forgive my memory). The then GOC of the 3rd Division in Jos under whose command the Northeast fall was Maj. General Muhammadu Buhari. Surely, northerners dominated the top command positions in the military then.

Without hesitation, the GOC in Jos was given the signal to flush out the Chadians. But on his own, the stern Buhari was determined to, in addition, teach them a lesson they will never forget.

In a twinkle, Buhari mobilized his soldiers and personally led them in the field. Within few days Nigerian soldiers not only got the Chadians to flee but they chased the latter right into Chad. Buhari couldn't stop. It took quite some effort to get the soldier in him to pull the brakes. Later, he will claim that he didn't know that he was already deep into Chad.

Buhari the GOC had an excellent relationship with his soldiers. He never allowed superiors to oppress their juniors or edit their allowances. He was riding a 504 saloon car and lived in a simple bungalow along Bauchi road adjacent to the Unijos Main Campus. When he was appointed the head of state after the coup, his soldiers in the barracks went wild in happiness. He bade them farewell, not knowing that it will be forever.

Well the Chadians never dared encroaching into Nigeria again. Buhari has permanently imprinted a lesson in them: Nigeria is mighty and no rat should dare step in its foot. The success was possible because the military chiefs and officers then were truly Nigerian. They believed in their hearts, not in their words only, that that the territorial integrity of this nation is not for bargain, its military must be strong and well catered for, and money was not their goal.

When the Maitatsine riots resurfaced in the Northeast during his regime, Buhari was the C-in-C and the story of how they were crushed ended in the burial of that sect forever.

No insurgency in Northern Nigeria surfaced again until when Obasanjo came to power. Like a joke, a group calling itself Nigerian Taliban surfaced in Yobe state. It engaged the police and the authorities in fights using guns and explosives. It was unbelievable. They were overcome but not wiped out. They had the chance to shift their base to Maiduguri and get patronised by the governors of Yobe and Borno states who gave them positions in government as a strategy of appeasement.

But the group couldn't be appeased. It continued to organise itself and train for a showdown to the full knowledge of the authorities in Abuja and at the dismay of the then SSS Director, Gadzama, who was from Borno and knew the risk his community and the nation at large would face in future.

When I raised this point at a conference in Kano, one of the former governors involved tried to discredit me, something I immediately objected to. These are facts, hard facts. Obasanjo as the C-in-C didn't do enough. By the time Yar'adua made an attempt to suppress the group extrajudicially, it was too late and, he too, didn't live a year longer than Muhammad Yusuf.

The death of Yaradua was a loss for the nation and its military. He gave the Niger Deltan terrorists a choice between war and peace. They chose peace. He sacked the then Chief of Defence Staff then, Andrew Azazi, for his involvement in arming the Niger Deltans and playing the fifth columnist in the fight against them. An army investigation report warned the nation of the existence of politicians from that region who nurse secessionist ambitions and who could become leaders of the country one day. A probe into their activities and level of
involvement in the arms theft, the report said, was necessary to avoid putting our national security at risk. Yar'adua, unfortunately, didn't institute the probe that would have seen Jonathan impeached. And he died, shortly and sadly. Thus, those fears expressed in the COAS office report in the theft of armoury from Kaduna and Jaji depots became real.

Jonathan, a Niger Deltan, became President. He returned Azazi as his National Security adviser and with that a different course was charted for the military.

Now, Nigerians have seen what a different calibre of leader Jonathan is. Also, the world has witnessed the mettle of the people - from the former Eastern region - he has chosen to lead the military and fight the insurgency. Their estimation in the eyes of the world is very low. Never in our history has a Nigerian president been so much a subject of ridicule by world leaders and press. Never in the history of our military has it performed so disastrously bad in the protection of the Nigerian citizen and became a subject of international disdain and contempt to the extent that the Americans said they will not share intelligence with it. How could they do so when they knew among our military are sponsors of Boko Haram, as Stephen Davies recently disclosed. (And believe me I have not seen a soldier in Ihejirika because he instantly became rattled by the disclosure, failed to put even a faint defence but resorted to blaming the president and Elrufai for underfunding the military.)

From Ihejirika to Minimah, various international and local media reports have shown our soldiers as neglected, ill-equipped, underpaid and many of them sadistic - taking delight in torturing Nigerians and killing them - as we have seen in the reported massacres of Baga and the latest slaughter video which the authorities said they are still investigating.

The Nigerian military is certainly witnessing its lowest moments. Soldiers are deserting it, as the authorities themselves confessed, and in moments of attack on civilians, they are seen running along with civilians for their dear lives. In one or two occasions, they fled to Cameroon in their hundreds where they were disarmed, packed into schools and escorted, like women and children, back to Nigeria. They arrived Mubi looking haggard, hungry and in need of help. Even in the battles that saw the fall of towns like Gwoza, Banki, Gamboru, Izge, Damboa, Bama, Gulak, Michika and Bazza, our soldiers were seen outrunning civilians for safety as their officers outrun civilian elites in building posh houses and riding the latest brands of cars.

What a depressing moment for every true Nigerian! What a moment of truth for our military! It is not a time for denial or pride, as a diplomat put it last week, because there is nothing to deny and nothing to be proud of when bandits earlier described as "ghosts" by the President can now capture large towns and keep them, one after another, and get our soldiers fleeing.

The Chadian soldiers that we could easily liquidate in 1983 today, in contrast, stand with their shoulders high. Three weeks ago, when Boko Haram abducted some 85 Nigerians and moved them across to a forest in Chad, Chadian soldiers instantly located them, fought them gallantly and freed the hostages, handing them back to Nigeria. Chad, for God's sake! Our Chibok girks and other abductees on Nigeria continue to languish in the hands of Boko Haram for my months now, awaiting for a rescue that will never come. Their government tells them: "You see, we can't rescue you because we don't want to see you harmed. You're safer there." What an excuse!

Cameroon too has been defeating the insurgents at every encounter, sometimes even crossing the border to assist Nigerian soldiers as it was reported in Ngala two weeks ago. Even yesterday, they routed the insurgents at a border town where they killed more than 100 of the latter.

Nigeria, where are the GOCs like Buhari, the chiefs like Wushishi, and Presidents like Shagari? Where are your courageous commanders like Shagaya and Malu who as true Nigerians earned us respect in Liberia and Sierra Leone?

The present GOC of the same 3 DIV, Zaruwa, must prove his mettle to Nigerians. His hometown, Bazza, is in the hands of Boko Haram, and so is Michika and Gulak. We want to see the reinvention of Buhari, Malu or Shagaya in him. Incidentally, the Chief of Defence Staff, Barde, is from neighbouring Mubi, a town that is half-deserted as it awaits its turn in the invasion tsunami of Boko Haram. Its people have been fleeing to Yola in their thousands. He too, we want to see a Wushishi reinvented in him. Let us see in the duo the reinvention of the ancient, legendary Margi warrior. We hope, but only hope can we afford, that the C-in-C and the COAS will give them all the support they need.

The comparison between yesterday and today for the Nigerian President and his military is truly odious. Nigerian leaders and indeed its military need to take a long, hard look at themselves. What went wrong and who are responsible for this state of shame? If we are serious, heads must roll. We also need a different set of leaders and commanders that are truly Nigerians in their past and future.

The spokeman for the Nigerians military, Olukolade, said Nigerians should not be discouraged with these setbacks and lose hope in the military. But, sincerely, where can we find the courage, where can we see the hope?

10 September 2014

The Return of Our Priceless NNPC Islamic Books

Our centuries long tradition of learning received a boost with the establishment in Zaria of a modern printing press, the Northern Nigeria Printing Corporation. Books that were transmitted through copying by hand using oil lamps at night could now be churned out of the press in thousands in a matter of days. Like in Europe, texts hitherto limited to few scholars became available to all. The horizon of information, knowledge and scholarship was expanded beyond our dreams in the then Northern region.

Their was also a boom in literature, given that publication and circulation was no longer a problem. New poems and novels in Hausa were written by young scholars in their 20s and 30s with a zeal and quality that remains unmatched by others to the present day. That was the era when novels like Ruwan Bagaja, Shehu Umar, Gandoki, Ilya Dan Maikarfi; poems like Infiraji, Fasaha Akiliya, Wakokin Muazu Hadejia; and translations like Dare Dubu Da Daya hit the streets of our cities and villages. These books were taught in schools and learned by commoners as well.

Religious scholars were not left behind. There were many publications that simplified, in Hausa, what was hitherto reached at only through travel, labour, service and diligence of many years before the traditional scholar in our zaure. Three books stuck in my memory to date: Ibada da Hukunci, Rariyar Addinin Musulunci and Jagorar Mai Sallah. These books were available in our primary and secondary schools, in our homes and our markets and through them, the basic knowledge of Islam was ushered into the brains of kids and adults. We learned what was expected of us about morals, values, tradition, and rights. Through them we were connected to our past and shared the enviable customs that unites the Muslim world.

But the literary boom did not last. With our preoccupation for material acquisition through every dubious means on the ascendant came the decline of values and scholarship. Added to this was the effort to kill every standing legacy of the defunct Northern region in the quest for Nigerian unity during the Babngida era. The NNPC was also to suffer the neglect of institutions like Radio Nigeria Kaduna, New Nigerian, Kaduna Polytechnic, Bank of the North, NNDC, etc. It is time to give up on these for Nigrerian unity, claimed Babangida when he was nationalising Kaduna polytechnic. And the books disappeared for a quite a while.

Two weeks ago, I was thinking of how my kids could quickly learn the basics of Islam in a quick but effective manner. I am not at all impressed with the performance of our Islamiyya schools. Then, I suddenly recalled Ibada da Hukunci and other similar books. Yes, I convinced myself that they will serve to bridge the gaps.

I visited a neighbouring school in search of old copies but there was none. I contacted the Ministry of Education in Bauchi if they know of any school that has them. They promised to check. With no feedback, I set out to try the market, just in case I may be lucky. I entered Darus Thaqafa in Jos and, behold, to my amazement, there was a whole section on NNPC publications including Rariya and Ibada Da Hukunci. What a delight! It was ecstatic! It was like discovering a deposit of diamond. No, Aliyu! It is better than diamond. It is knowledge!

I immediately bought all the 7 available sets of Rariya (3 pamphlets each) and ordered for 15 sets of Ibadah da Hukunci (2 volumes each). I headed for home and announced to my family the return of the good, old past. I placed the children on a scheme, going through the books, one after the other, starting with Rariya before graduating to Ibada Da Hukunci. They have been enjoying them better than other books on religon because of their simplicity and the Hausa language in which they are rendered. Their friends too quickly developed interest in the books. I am now convinced, more than ever before, that the basics on Islam they are expected to learn is getting up there. What a relief!

May God reward Alhaji Halliru Binji, Alhaji Shehu Usman Gombe and other the authors of these permanently invaluable books. As a lecturer in Sokoto in the 1980s, I did not miss the opportunity to express my gratitude to Alhaji Halliru Binji for writing Ibada Da Hukunci. He then was the Grand Qadi of Sokoto State and used to meet me for Tajweed lessons in the house of the late Egyptian, Sheikh Suleiman.

If I were in the right position of authority, I would have made these books once more a compulsory reading for our children in primary and secondary schools. However, as I recommend them here to individuals and families on my page, I hope someone with such influence will also bring the issue to the notice of our educators.

At the Millennium Academy I am managing, it goes without saying that the books will be on the curriculum list right from this September when we resume. They will be studied by students right from Primary IV. And there on the list, the books will remain forever. Senior students must master them before they start the Arabic ones: Akhdari, Ishmawiy, Iziyya and finally Risala by the time they complete SSS3, in sha Allah.

14 September 2014

My Brief Views on Dr. Gumi's Letter to Buhari

A number of friends who read my last post where I expressed the desire to block any political post on my Facebook page until after 2015 elections have asked my opinion on Dr. Gumi's letter to Buhari. This was my brief statement:

I am meeting Gumi soon on this. We haven't met for a while. But generally his views from Islamic jurisprudence are right since as most people estimate continuation of Jonathan beyond 2015 portends worse crises for the country than Boko Haram. This is a privileged information, I think, which he didn't elaborate on but which is crucial in understanding his statement. Buhari losing will be catastrophic. The other argument about Buhari being used and dumped isn't much necessary as politics is rampant with that culture, so it's not peculiar to Buhari.

And about the prospect of Buhari we are blessed with hindsight which we arw choosing to ignore at oir peril but which the Sheikh was not oblivious of. None of the factors that led to his defeat have we overcome. Yet, every election year we and power mongering politicians make this extremely humble and honest personality undergo the repeated torture of rape and defeat, both at polls and in court.

I pity Buhari. I could remember how dark sadness was written all over his face when we visited him at his house in Daura just after the 2003 election. Making him undergo such torture repeatedly just for their selfish reasons is inhuman of our politicians. And now they are at it again. When in 2011 he said he will not contest elections again, I told a friend, "Forget it. He will. The politicians will make him swallow his words. And even beyond 2015."

Where I disagree with Dr. Gumi is in the alternative. He thinks Atiku stands a better chance. No way. Neither is Kwankwaso. That's why I said the solution lies outside the box of ethnicity, religion and region, the three tools that the Peoples Destruction Party has mastered perfectly.

However, this idea, which has been accepted by every impartial person I have met, is ignored by politicians on both sides of the Niger.

It appears the doom is inevitable.

October 22, 2014 · 

From Bama to Mubi

From Bama to Mubi: Incompetence Supported Primitivism

By Aliyu U. Tilde

In 2010, I drove from Maiduguri to Yola through the towns of Bama, Gwoza and Mubi. It was one of the most beautiful sceneries I ever witnessed. I was so overwhelmed that I thanked God to belonging to a country blessed with such terrain of beautiful mountains and exquisite plains. I have since been dreaming to ride on that stretch many times before it becomes too late.

In the past three years, I painfully witnessed the forces of primitivism connive to wreck havoc on the enviable land and peaceful people of the Northeast. Today, my dreams of revisits in the immediate future are dashed.

Two days ago, the largest town in Sardaauna Province where I schooled fell to the hands of Boko Haram. My people - the people of the occupied lands of Borno and Adamawa - are living under tragic humanitarian conditions. They are on their own. No government to supoort them, no army to protect them. They never thought that 52 years after they chose to stay in Nigeria this will become theor fate. Were the Sardauna who so convinced them alive today and powerful, nobody would have touched them.

However, long after the death of the Sardauna, they have their sons in his place. The state governor, the presidential advisers, the ruling party heavyweights, the speaker of the state assembly, the Chief of Defence staff, the GOC 3rd Div of the army, among others, are all from Adamawa North. Yet, these sons of the Higgi, Margi, Fulani and other tribes that inhabit the area have put their personal interests over that of their people. They have failed to bring their weight to bear on a President that has proved to be so deliberately and callously adamant on the humanitarian apocalypse afflicting his people for the primitive reason that they do not come from his own side of the country.

What these politicians and military officers are doing instead is promoting the agenda that will perpetuate the harship of their people: the President's 2015 ambition. They are, of course, supported by many others who back the President on equally primitive grounds of religion or ethnicity, in spite of his colossal failure to carry out the basic function of a President: security for his people.

This incompetence nourished by primitivity in a nation that boasts of the greatest wealth, population and human resources on the continent is not at all promising. It validates the old claim of J.S. Mill that democracy is fit only for civilised nations of the West. What a shame!

My heart cannot contain my fury over what is happening in the Northeast. It cannot. The little I can do alone is really small, and so is what others like me might do. Howeber there is an opportunity at hand. Come 2015, I would be the biggest fool on the planet if I vote for Jonathan. At least I am wise enough to put reason before sentiment, be it sourced from religion or ethnicity.

This is not politics. It is a duty to my nation, a responsibilty for my people and a commitment to my conscience. If every sincere Nigerian were to search his heart, he would find me and himself on the same plane with the angels. That congregation of hearts and that harmony of voices close to God would be enough to make the devil vacate his seat. I look around in search of such hearts. I wish I could find many at the crucial moment next February.

Only when the embodiment of incompetence is expelled can we hope for a better future in which the subregion will once more secured. Only then will our children, girls, boys, men and women that now wander in the land return to their homes and start to reconstruct their lives. And only then would I, once more, be able to relive my dream of driving along the Maiduguri-Yola road to behold the beauty of that landscape and see the broad smiles on the face of its people.

Aliyu!

Girbi Da Dadi, Samu Ne Da Wuya

Cikin abin da na koya ina yaro akwai wata waka da makwabtanmu na kabilar Buji na Jahar Pilato suke yi lokacin girbin dawa. Mahaifinmu, Allah ya jikan shi, yakan yi mana wakar lokacin girbin dawa, mu yi ta dariya musamman yanda yake kwaikwayon Hausar mutanen Buji:

Girbi dawa da dadi
Samu ne da waya
Nasara ya ce da sarkin Buji
Kada ka aje gashin baki

Yanzu da kaka ta yi kowane manomi na cikin annashuwar girbi da godiya ga Allah da ya nuna mana kaka. Duk da cewa ba a fara cin dawa ba, tuni aka fara cin wasu gonakin kamar na masara da shinkafa.

In masu karatu za su tuna, na taba nuno gonar ciyawar shanu da na shuka. To Allah ya sa an fara girbi. An gama da ta Brachiaria yau inda muka yi amfani da silasha wajen yayyanke ciyawar. Za a barta na tsawon kwana biyu don ta tsane ruwanta kafin a tattara ta a daure, dami dami. Gata nan a kwance a hoton farko.

Gobe in Allah ya kaimu, za mu yanke ta Chloris gayana. Ga hotonta nan a tsaye kafin a kwantar da ita gobe.

Wani abu da wadannan ciyayin shi ne shekara mai zuwa ba sai an sake shuka su ba. Sai dai kawai a samu takin kaji ko na shanu a zuba, in ruwa ya sauka sai su sake tohowa. Haka dai, haka dai, ko shekara 50 za a yi. Ciyayin da aka shuka tun zamanin su Sardauna a Cibiyar Binckiken Habaka Kiwon Dabbobi (NAPRI) a Zaria suna nan har yau.

Wadannan ciyayi ne masu daraja wadanda suke da amfani a jikin dabbobi. In da makiyaya za su samu tallafin filaye kamar hekta (kusan filin kwallo) biyar kowannensu, da tallafin gyaran filin, da isasshen iri na wadannan ciyayi, allabashin su makiyayan su ji da kwadago, da kakarsu ta yanke saka. Da sun daina taka sayyada zuwa kasashen yamma inda ba a maraba da su.

Akwai isassun dazuzzukan da za a yi haka da kuma kudin gudanar da ayyukan amma zuciyar ce ba ta da niyya. In akwai niyya sai dai ta satar dukiyar jama-a.

Abin mamaki shi ne 'ya'yan talakawa ne aka danka wannan mulki a hannunsu, amma sun kasa kishin jama'arsu da yan'uwansu talakawa. Allah ya isan mana.

Ga wadanda suka zage damtse suka yi kokari da damina suka shuka, suka noma, farin cikin lokacin girbi ya zo.

"Girbi dawa da dadi
Samu ne da waya."

Aliyu