After 21st Century Chronicle Story, Tambuwal Visits Shehu Kangiwa Residence
POLITICS DIGEST– About 24 hours after 21st CENTURY CHRONICLE’s exclusive story, Sokoto State Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has visited the dilapidating house of the first elected governor of old Sokoto State, Alhaji Shehu Kangiwa.
On Sunday, an online newspaper 21st CENTURY CHRONICLE exclusively reported how the one- storey building belonging to the family of late Kangiwa became deserted and desolate
As at the time of publishing this report, Governor Tambuwal, is still at the Kangiwa’s residence located at Kagara Street, off Agaie Road, in the Government Reserved Area (GRA), in Sokoto metropolis.
Even though it’s located in the famed Sokoto GRA, the late governor’s property looked very dilapidated and abandoned when our reporter visited last week.
Kangiwa’s family members explained how the property was last painted or renovated about 40 years ago.
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However, despite Kangiwa’s sterling legacies in terms of projects, programmes and policies accomplished during his two-year stint as governor of old Sokot state (now Sokoto, Zamfara and Kebbi states), his family now lives in penury, squalor and abject poverty. They are too ashamed to tell their sorry story. At last, they opened up to our reporter for the first time on how life has been to them 40 years after the demise of their breadwinner.
The last born of the former governor, Ahmad Shehu Kangiwa, said since his father’s death, the only things the family have been enjoying from the state government are bags of grains during Ramadan fasting period and sacrificial animals during Eid -el- Kabir.
One of the surviving wives, Hajiya Aisha Buzuwa, told our correspondent that 40 years after her husband’s death, the family has not received his death benefits.
She appealed to the Sokoto State government to do something about their situation because they are losing some of their members, including her only daughter.
