My brothers death

LAMIRU MUHD B.U.K, KANO
SPS/09/GMC/00003
P.G.D. MASS COM
ONLINE ASSIGNMENT
10/9/10

3RD STORY

MY BROTHER’S DEATH
Something has happened to me that I will never forget that was Sept. 2009.

The story is about the death of my full brother who was an accountant, banker as well as business and rich person but married uneducated woman who hardly finished Primary School here in Kano. The woman pretended to be a good wife he was even happy praising her, but unfortunately the woman was trying to conspire him and have power over him and his wealth.

She tried to create misunderstanding or misachiever between him and his relatives, we stopped coming or visiting my house and his children too despite the fact that I neither quarrel with him nor deceived or cheated him he even appointed or made me a director in his company, his relatives who were living together with him started having problem with him even sending chasing them away, his mother that is our mother has no power to say or do anything in the house he was even afraid of her, nobody enjoyed coming or visiting his house both relatives and well wishers except the mischeavious, unseropolous and hypocritical ones.

The wife became so powerful in house to the extent that nobody has the courage to challenge her or even advise her, and my brother used to travel almost every week to Lagos or abroad he gave the veto power to do everything about his children even my mother, never included in his home affair even if it affected my mother.

Fortunately with the help of God Almighty my brother begined to understand that this woman was planning something bad in his house he understood he was trying to over power him in his house even in his affairs he had no right to discipline his children or to do what he like in his house.

Therefore the problems started to occur very day and night between him and her, because he became so arrogant behaving as if was a queen or princess while her father was very power Malam, mostly depended on my brother assistance who advised her (the wife) times without number to be playful, obedient, thankful and dutiful to her husband.

But never complied with her fathers advices he continued quarrelling with him, fighting him to extent tearing in his shirts inform of his children sometimes was even trying to heat him with steel or iron.

My brother was in this situation when he started suffering from sickness living in up-stair nobody has right to go there and see him because the wife never allowed, she neither call his relatives nor inform them even me his only full brother, my mother didn’t know exactly what is happening to her son because she is to old getting around 100 years of age she is scared of the wife and living in down stairs while my brother was at up-stairs.

When my mother understood that her son was seriously sick she called me to come and help when I came to see him the wife didn’t allow me to see my brother. So I left without seeing him, I came for the second time she didn’t allow me the something for the 3rd time.

The wife went to unknown doctor and brought some medicine for my brother to take, but he refused to take it, she used my mother to persuade him or even force him to take the medicine but still refused. So later my matter called through phone so when I came I met her standing so worried helplessly waiting for me she held my hand and took me to my brother without taking any permission from the wife I met him in a terrible and unbelievable condition, he couldn’t express medicine for him and compel him take some medicine, and also complained to me about one of his brothers who came and disturbed him despite the situation he found him and told me that he didn’t want to him to be invited any more, because the brother is very arrogant, jealous, wicked and harsh hearted some body and quarrel somebody and quarrelsome too.

After I thought that the best assistance I can offer is rush him to the hospital so I was able to cajole persuade him. So on 16/09/10 we took him to the hospitals the doctors asked him some questions which the wife was not happy about them, so after two day my brother died may God Almighty forgive him and take care of his children Ameen.

Before my brother died he handed over all his land assets to me as a caretaker with authority letter, so after the death few days, the wife started to show her true colour, my brother left behind two wives, five children and his mother who are to inherit him, three children for this wife I am now talking about her, one belongs to the second wife, the other to his former late wife. My mother has the largest share of the estate followed by the children than the least is the share of wives.

So started dictating me what he wants and doesn’t, and that I must give her what ever she wanted, I said no let us fallow the Islamic law since we are all Muslims, ok I shall have over all the properties and money to her or them since I am not among the heirs they don’t like my service and my mother was backing her because they were living together as such she is having control and influence over her, moreover she is afraid of her, she connived with that brother of ours which my brother said he should not be invited who was trying to spoil my name creating problems between me and my mother and the rest of my relatives, this brother who is patternal or half brother called (‘Yan Uba) they all turned against me that I am a cheat a trouble maker and want manipulate the estate, and my mother they instigated her, and removed me from representing her. It tried before to take her away from them, but they didn’t allow me to take my own mother with me, the wife was claiming that my mother is in her hand she is in charge of her, it was my brother gave her our mother together with her stepson.

So I was the only one now struggling nobody was supporting me except the God Almighty, and insisted that is should hand over, and she will close down the company and employ new workers, sack the tenants and close all the houses, so she took me to court where I handed over the properties to them at the long run the estate were distributed.

So I was very much annoyed they have tried to separate my mother from me in order to cheat her because she didn’t know anything about the estate due to old age. The wife started taking away the properties of my mother by force she dashed one house to one boy who was working with my brother who was giving her total support though he is a son to my senior sister but turned to be my dead enemies, and another house is to be sold by the judge to build mosque and school worth N 15 million. 80 my mother fund herself in very terrible situation they were disturbing her threatening me, separating her from me taking her here and there despite her old, high blood pressure, ulcer and heart paining, as such she was always crying. She told me that she couldn’t sleep for almost two weeks.

Later I thought the only way for me is to take this matters to another court, remember I was always pray full day and night myself, too listened to me instantly he sacked my brothers wife and that brother the wicked person away from the court and warned them not to come back and they don’t have any right or business with my mother and finally he asked to go and settle with my mother and comeback after fourteen days.

So after some days I went to settle with my mother together with three of my learned friends who will help in begging her and explaining the matter for her in order to understand me very well, in the process of talking with my mothers the wife came and met us inside my mother room, started shouting abusing us, and threatening me that I will see what will happen to me, I will be ashamed of myself (Sai ka raina kanka) and there will be no reconciliation with me so she distorted the meeting.

So I informed my lawyer we went to the court the court ordered the police to arrest her and investigate the matter since it was the criminal case.

So she arrested the case was investigated and found guilty, but my mother and my friends the witnesses begged me to forgive her since every body in the police station has condemned her, nobody supported her, they advised her to stay away from me, my mother and her properties.

So at the end with the God Almighty grace my mother is my hand in my custody, her, N 15 million house was also recovered but she is still holding the original particulars (papers) of all the houses my mother inherited, but the case is still with court where she filed the case, so we are waiting to see what will happen, but I am very skeptical because the judge seems to be biars and partial.

Thank you God Almighty for helping me and protecting me always because you are always on the side of those who are truthful

My lifein Saudi Arabiya

LAMIRU MUHD B.U.K, KANO

SPS/09/GMC/00003

P.G.D. MASS COM

ONLINE ASSIGNMENT

10/9/10

 2^ND STORY

MY LIFE IN SAUDI ARABIYA 2007

It was 2007 November when God Almighty called me for Hajj (Pilgrimage), as we always say. It was November ending when we heard over the radio that the pilgrims from Jigawa State, Local Government of Kiyawa, Jahun, Kafin Hausa should immediately get ready and come out to kano airport, because our plane is coming/arriving in the night, with warning that anybody who delays should blame nobody but himself, because the plane will take-off in that night of its arrival.

So I prepared myself, very happy going to the holy land to perform my first Hajj, at the same time I was so unhappy and worried, because I am leaving my family and relatives going to the new and far place in oversea, but is something inevitable I must go. So I said good by to my family and asked them to forgive me, because I don’t know whether I may come back or not. My wife Hauwa and my children Munzir, Ahmad and Abduljalil, all boosted in tears, crying praying and saying goodbye to me.

So I left my house to airport with aim of leaving the country to Saudi Arabia. When I reached there I went to the Jigawa State office for more information, our team leader told us that we have to wait till when  the passports arrive, when the passport arrived my team leader called out the names and mine was called, so I collected my own passport. I counted the traveling allowance inserted there in everything was correct, so I was very delighted, but for some it was a sad day because they did not get passport and some got their own missing because of carelessness as result of old age or illiteracy that was the beginning of our problems.

After, we were asked to go to the boarding area for checking, because the plane is about to land. It was Mangal Air that will take us to holy land so we started rushing helter-scholar to go and qui a line. The boarding center is an open area with only Veranda no rooms, no stores with few toilets, the weather by that time was cold because it was hammatan, so we waited, there was no checking and the plane did not arrive.

So we found ourselves sleeping outside on veranda no food no room no mat no pillow no blanket and it was hammatan. We spent more one week, some of us who were very near they went back and became day pilgrims coming every day to check, some went and brought mat, blanket e.t.c. some they bought them with their money from the neighbouring shops. Some like me found themselves in dilemma, if you go back home you don’t have peace of mind, if you stay here you are expose to danger.

So we suffered a lot some were affected with illness or sickness such as fever, dysentery, vomiting e.t.c. This terrible situation completed us to demonstrate within the Hajj camp, the demonstration was covered by some press media like freedom radio Kano, radio and even Jigawa State radio.

This demonstration made Jigawa State Government to send some delegations of Commissioner (s) directors together with the secretary Jigawa State pilgrim board, to come and address and persuade us to be patient, they are trying to solve the problem with Mangal Air, at the end they gave us some food allowance for this inconvenience, but at the end Mangal Air couldn’t beat the deadline, so another plane was hared from Libia I think, that was the plane that took us to Saudi Arabia together some top government officials including the wife of the governor.

So in the evening we arrived at Jiddah airport after screening we came out from airport. Before our arrived to Jiddah we were promised by the government that each of us will be given Ihram clothes and a plate or dish of rice and chicken called in Hausa Shinkafa Kaza, so we were all happy because to an ordinary Nigerian Shinkafa Kaza is a special food for big and rich people, but on reaching there we found that the food was cheap, common to every one, even from the dust bean you can eat chicken and satisfy.

We noticed a lot of differences between Nigeria and Saudi Arebiya there is security in Saudi Arebiya anywhere and time, the life is easy because what ever you need is available and very cheap, the light is more their available activities were going on day and night you can eat to your satisfaction even if you don’t have money because charities come from every angle known as Sabil, though the government of Jigawa had done it best too.

So we stayed in Maccah for more than 30 days we performed our pilgrimage said our prayer and supplication without or with little problems, I have to confess here that throughout my life I have never eaten beef, chickens, eggs, juice, date and milk to the best my satisfaction till when I went to Hajj 2007 in Maccah May Good Almighty bless and protect the government of Jigawa and the people of Saudi Arebiya Ameen.

December ending 2007 we were asked to carry all our loads and baggage’s to go back home (Nigeria) that was the beginning of the next problem. So we were supplied with two bags small and big to put our properties/items so every one of us went to the markets bought what ever he wanted and filled up the bag. Later Hajj official announced that the big bag is to big is more than 40kg therefore we have to reduce it to 40kg or we must pay for the access, the pilgrims said no, why were they given the bigger one? How can they come out with this order after spending their money they should be informed before but not now.

This led to clashes between official of Hadeja Local Government and their pilgrims which necessitated the Jigawa State government to intervene by taking the responsibility of paying access kilograms of our bags, so we were taken to Jiddah airport to Nigeria during a very harsh weather of hamatan which was more harsh or harsher than that of Nigeria we spent more than 7 days in the airport no food, no money, no rooms and blanket and the food in the airport was very cost there is no charity (Sabil) because Saudi Arebiya government is expecting  every country to leave the airport as soon as they reach there within few hours.

We stayed in this bad situation later we were taken by Kabo Air so warrted, very dirty and weak. May God Almighty bless us with good leaders like those of Saudi Arebia Ameen.

Link with Kano State international airport, with Jeddahinternational airport with Maccah on Ka’abah, with Madinah or mosque of Prophet Peace be upon him.

     

The ancient Katsina City

LAMIRU MUHD B.U.K, KANO

SPS/09/GMC/00003

P.G.D. MASS COM

ONLINE ASSIGNMENT

10/9/10

1^ST STORY

THE ANCIENT KATSINA CITY

Katsina city is oldest city in Hausa land with a long history traceable before the coming of Islam, blessed with very strong leaders known as Sarakuna the plural of Sarki, who did their best to protect her territories from all angles. Some neighbouring countries or cities became so interested in attacking the city, because city became hero, famous and unchallengeable. Situated in Northern Nigeria of West Africa.

So some kings from other cities for and near lunched some attacks on her, like Gobirawa from Gobir, Nufawa from Nupe, Zazzagawa from Zazzau, Kanawa from Kano, and so forth, all were challenge and defeated by Katsina.

The city was secured and protected by fortification with a tower of Gobarau called Hassumiya, the fortification was constructed and architectured with big gates, from almost all corners of the city, for coming in and out, and also for security any one coming in or even going out must be noted seen and known by gate keeper known as Sarkin Kofa, since each gate at that time had a gate keeper appointed by Sarki. While Hassumiya Gobarau was built purposely for security too, because it was used for tracing or looking out the coming of enemies to attack the city the enemies. Katsinawa were the first people who initiated tower in whole of Hausa States and its nieghbourhood, as the proverb says: Necessity is the mother of invention. The gates of the fortification still exist thus are as fellows:

1.  Kofar Yardaka: The gate through which the colonial masters forced themselves into the city, situated near Gafai Quarters, the gate will take you out of the city to some villages such as Babbar Giga, ‘Yan shanya e.t.c.

2.  Kofar Kaura: It leads to some villages and towns such as Rimi (ta Kaura) Dandagwabro, Kankiya e.t.c up to Kano situated near Shararrarfayib Quarters.

3.  Kofar Kwaya: Situated near Tsohuwar Kasuwa leading to Katsina Polytechnic Federal College of echication to Dutsenma, Kankara Funtua e.t.c.

4.  Kofar Bai: Situated near Dusten Amare, leading to Izala Juma’ah Mosque, G.R.A up to Airport.

5.  Kofar Maruaa: Leading to government Hausa, Airport, G.R.A to some villages/towns like Makera, Dutse, Mashi e.t.c.

6.  Kofar Sauri: Situated around old Katsina Training College (KTC) later Katsina Teachers College (KTC), Government College Katsina (GCK) e.t.c.

7.  Kofar Guga: Situated near Makudawa Quarters leading to army barrack, Gidan Kwakwa (P.P.U), Radda, Jibia up to Niger Republic.

All these gates were routed toward the king/emir palace where you can see the court, offices of native authority, Police Station, central mosque, Kangiwa square e.t.c.

Katsina city was known or praised to be Dakin Kara (home of hospitality), and also known in both Islamic and Western education. Scholars such as Dan Marna, Dan Masani and Dan Takum were all from Katsina, our best leaders such as Tabawa Balewa and Ahmadu Sardauna were the product of Katsina Training College.

The city is blessed with many Schools both Primaries/Secondaries, Colleges of Educations Polytechnics and Universities.