The CP in Kano – man of the moment vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
Even in normal times our big urban areas: Lagos, Kano, Ibadan, Kaduna, etc., have always been tinderboxes of unrest and small matters could ignite days of crises there. Kano city was in such a situation that night. Youths said to be armed by political warlords roamed the city ready to fight at the slightest provocation. Then the social media was put aglow with videos of the Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Wakili, doing a walkabout the city talking and cajoling the crowds in troubled areas.
I wonder if he slept that night. He must have roamed the city from one end to the other, preaching peace at every stop, harping on the need for those seeking public office to play by the rules and those who lost elections to go to court instead of unleashing mayhem. In a part of the video, he was even confident enough to admonish the crowd that if any crises arose he would proceed to Gombe his home town to retire. Idan an yi tashin hankali a Gwale, Gobe zan kama hanyar Gombe.
The reason that the CP succeeded in Kano because he spoke the same language and shared a similar background with the people and could relate easily with them. That may be so; but anyone who had followed the exploits of CP Wakili, particularly on that election night, would readily admit that he must be an exception among our public officials who in many cases have an acute disdain for the public and are normally surrounded by an aura of haughtiness, liberally suffused with the big man syndrome.
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