Mutallib

Published by Daily Trust https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/what-if-our-leaders-travel-by-road.html The bad condition of our roads suggest that our leaders do not perform to expectation in discharging their constitutional duties. I often think that our leaders are, to a very large extent, disconnected from the grassroot. The Jengre–Sami Naka road that linked Plateau State and Kaduna State displays a seeming failure of the government and a proof to the above assertion. The road has been bad for many many years and nothing is done and nothing seems to be done yet. Hardly will a person pass that road without health problem springing up. It is fundamentally this reason and the roads of similar bad condition across Nigeria that makes me imagine a law that will make it compulsory for our leaders when having a journey of not more than six(6) hours or more within Nigeria to go by road. This will, to my own humble imagination, doubtlessly makes the Nigerian leaders very much aware of the predic...

Published by Daily Trust  https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/democracy-bleeds-in-kano.html l The mind still recalls the kind of violence meted on the agents and supporters of Abba Kabir Yusuf, the unfair treatment of those who rejected the continuation of the government, the rigging which was visible to the blind, the immature attitudes exhibited by some icons of the government, the gagging and the tying of the hands of CP Wakil (Singham), the silence of those who were direly needed and expected to speak. Such silence of theirs became a licence to the continues rape of democracy. Democracy being an epitome of the choice of the people seems contradictory in the blessed city of Kano, especially looking at how it still bleeds from the injuries it sustained from such merciless rape by the powers within and outside the state. Kano is ruled by force and not by choice of its people. It was after the election that Abba K. Yusuf, somewhat unwillingly, took the matter to the election tribun...