A Tribute To My Hero of 2022
By Shehu M. Gusau
He is unapologetically Northern Hausa!
He has the most beautiful Northern Hausa-accented verbosity I ever heard spoken! He speaks with a messianic fervour, unapologetic with his Hausa accent. His voice and manner of speaking the colonialist’s language is unmistakable in a room full of false Oxford-accented and pretentious English speakers (or speakers of English).
Yet he stands head and shoulders above all of them. His message is clear and unpretentious. He cannot be silenced. He refused to be silenced in his messianic passion to fight Nigeria’s and Nigerians’ unquenchanable proclivity for corruption!
Thanks to him, we now know that Nigeria’s corruption is in trillions of Naira. Those dealing in billions have become small potatoes!
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He cannot be silenced. He refused to be silenced. When, as recently happened, the leadership of the House of Representatives denied him his rightful voice on the floor of the House, he took his case directly to the people. He called a press conference and told his story to the world. He went to the entertaining and widely patronised people’s radio and television magazine studio, the one and only Brekete Family where his voice was heard all over the world.
They used to laugh derisively when he speaks, obviously because of his unadulterated and unapologetic Hausa accent. They are no longer laughing! They have come to realise that behind that buffoonery, there lies a serious and courageous personality! His confidence is overwhelming! He is fearless!
His buffoonish front was just that: a front, a veneer! A camouflage hiding a more astute and tough persona!
No matter the outcome of his latest crusade (the so-called stamp duty fraud investigation), personally assigned to him by no less a person than the President himself, no matter whether the shameful saga is swept under the carpet (as usually happens in this country), he is my hero. In a country (and region) where heroes and heroic acts and personalities are hard to come by!
He is my World (yes: I repeat World) Legislator of the Year 2022! Ladies and gentlemen, he is the one and only Honourable Muhammad Gudaji Kazaure, Danbaffa!
Shehu M. Gusau
31 Dec 2022
