By Ibrahim Adam
Malam Shaharani is a father of one of the beneficiaries of Kwankwasiyya Scholarship Scheme. His son (Mashahud) was sponsored twice by the administration of HE Sen. Kwankwaso for undergraduate degree and Msc by Kwankwasiyya Development Foundation, all in India.
While he was weeping and thanking Sen. Kwankwaso yesterday on behalf of other beneficiaries parents, during a 3-Day Job Fair for Kwankwasiyya Sponsored Students, he narrated how he trekked from his house to Kano govt House with just 10 Naira in his pocket, to submit the credential of his Son, after he heard on Radio station, the advertisement of Scholarship abroad by Kwankwaso’s administration for Kano State Secondary Schools graduate that graduated with 9 credits. That is, in the year 2012.
Luckily enough, his Son was sent to Sam Hagginbattom University in India for his undergraduate where he bagged 1st class degree in Pharmacy. Upon his return, Kwankwasiyya Development Foundation under the auspices of Sen. Kwankwaso sponsored him again to Sharda University In India where he bagged his Msc.
He narrated how all this happened with having no connection with Kwankwasiyya govt and Kwankwasiyya Development Foundation.
While Listening to the fulfilled father talk, my mind and attention quickly shifted to Madugu who was sitting far from the podium, as he listens to the emotional father talk. You could see fulfillment, even bigger and greater than the father’s in Sen. Kwankwaso’s face. I still wonder what he must have always felt whenever beneficiaries of his vast human capital development programmes or their parents make public testimonies in appreciation of how he changed their lives. “ There sits a great man” I told myself, the only reflection of the likes of Sardauna and Balewa.
Ibrahim Adam is the Media aide of Kwankwasiyya movement
