Kofar Waika community: Deprived, neglected

Kofar Waika sits between Aminu Kano Way and Isyaka Rabi’u Juma’at Mosque, Gwauron–Dutse situated on the western plank of Kano City.  It shares border with the historical Goron–Dutse hill which is about to host the State Water Board office. Kofar Waika has no physical infrastructure commensurate with a community hosting a higher institution of learning […]

Kofar Waika sits between Aminu Kano Way and Isyaka Rabi’u Juma’at Mosque, Gwauron–Dutse situated on the western plank of Kano City.  It shares border with the historical Goron–Dutse hill which is about to host the State Water Board office. Kofar Waika has no physical infrastructure commensurate with a community hosting a higher institution of learning like Northwest University.    
 Hundreds of thousands of Kofar Waika residents feel marginalised since the advent of democracy in 1999.   In spite of its geographical location in the metropolitan Kano, Kofar Waika is in a pathetic condition due to its inaccessibility! In spite of many other social amenities lacking in the area the most worrisome is the inaccessibility of its road of less than 1½km distance from Isyaka Rabi’u Juma’at Mosque Gwauron–Dutse to its terminal point at Kofar Waika by Northwest University.
The condition of road is better explained by our pregnant wives and mothers whenever situation warrants conveying them to the hospital for antenatal attention!    Our aged and children become vulnerable to the menace of motorists and tricycle operators who struggle continuously to dodge potholes that are the main features of the road, only to ram into pedestrians. As if this is not bad enough, the load looks a row of ridges, and this portends danger to resident. This therefore is an appeal to Governor Kwankwaso to spare few minutes out of his tight official schedules to explore Kofar Waika road to Isyaka Rabi’u Juma’at mosque;” or least, direct his aides to submit an on–the–spot assessment of the road to.  Other ancillary utility needed by the constituents of Kofar Waika is a befitting town gate obtainable worldwide but in conformity with Hausa culture or tradition as the existing gate built over 150 years has rotted! Whereas we are not accusing the state government of bias in the execution and location of social projects, particularly in the metropolis, we hasten to add that what is good for the goose is also good for the gander; hence our call on the governor to replicate the road project and modern town gate executed between S. A. S. and Sabuwar Kofa for the Kofar Waika people!  This will justify the governor’s stance that “all animals are equal” unlike that of Animal Farm.

Sulaiman Muhammad Ayagi, Kofar Waika Quarters, Gwauron–Dutse, Kano