Kano new emirates: A positive step for rural dwellers
To be candid, the recent splitting of the Kano emirate council into five distinct entities as far as rural dwellers are concern, is a most welcome development and a very positive step in the right direction.
More Emirates means more developments across all the nooks and crannies of the state. The hitherto retrogressive idea of concentrating everything in Kano city alone which has been in practice for long has never been a noble idea and I believe those who are opposing the move are either uninformed or ignorant about the whole concept and/or to say it plainly; reactionary elements and enemies of progress! For emphasis, apart from Kano city, all the other big and historical towns like Rano, Gaya, Takai, Karaye, Danbatta and Tsakuwa are mere glorified villages that looks like medieval fiefdoms in this 21st century, Haba!
When shall development reach our respective domains under the archaic arrangement whereby everything have been centralized in Kano City? Are we then destined to be under socio-economic bondage in perpetuity in the name of unity of Masarauta? And how can villages be equal stakeholders in the development trajectory of Kano
given that the system in operation favours ONLY Kano?
It was like Kano have been consciously programmed to remain a one city state, because other towns and villages were deliberately underdeveloped. There were no conscious effort to spread developments to all locations, and based on that lopsided and unjust arrangement, even our aged and elderly parents have to go to Kano City before accessing basic amenities; never mind the difficulties attached to that hard experience.
The advantages attached to the decentralization of Kano emirate by far outweigh the disadvantage if any. So, any positive thinker and development minded person would love to support the move by Kano state government in the ongoing effort to break the yoke of ceaseless internal colonialism that have been entrenched in the state for more than a millennia! By this, it is hoped that the era whereby one city continues to lord it over other towns in the state would become history and a thing of the past.
Aside that, having more Emirates will be handy whenever the idea of creation of more states arises. Furthermore, over concentration of all developmental projects within Kano town can be address once and for all, with the successful upgrading of the five emirates into the same pedestal as Kano emirate!
The move apart from bringing more developments and correcting the many historical wrongs would usher in financial inclusion and economic prosperity in the state. In addition, the current rural-urban mass migration will be checkmated.
The four newly created Emirates have come to stay, and no amount of sophistry and big grammar can turn back the hand of the clock in our journey toward total emancipation and freedom. And we will resist any attempt to draw us back to square one in perpetual servitude to a single town-Kano.
Henceforth, Kano rural towns and villages would be developed too, using the resources that have been accruing into the state in torrent, and they would be equal stakeholders in the scheme of things.
In the entire history of the world, there have always been history makers, history re-creators, and/ or history destroyers. Some have become heroes/heroine, while others have become villains. In Kano, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje would eternally be remembered by Kano rural dwellers as a quintessential history maker, the emancipator, and a man who succeeded in breaking the glass ceilings in his onerous effort to unchained rural communities from the tangle of domination by remodeling and reshaping the traditional institutions.
Kabir Tsakuwa, Rano, Kano State