Meet the first Sadaukin Kasar Hausa, Hamza Suleiman
Today, HRH, Alhaji Faruk Umar Faruk, the Emir of Daura, will perform the investiture ceremony of the new Sadaukin Kasar Hausa, Hon Hamza Suleiman, Fnes, Df-Aiwmes, Df-Aihsra. The celebrant is an indigene of Faskari Local Government Area of Katsina State. Born to the respected, literate, humble and compassionate family of Alhaji Sulen-Sule Faskari (of blessed […]
Hamza Suleiman
Today, HRH, Alhaji Faruk Umar Faruk, the Emir of Daura, will perform the investiture ceremony of the new Sadaukin Kasar Hausa, Hon Hamza Suleiman, Fnes, Df-Aiwmes, Df-Aihsra.
The celebrant is an indigene of Faskari Local Government Area of Katsina State.
Born to the respected, literate, humble and compassionate family of Alhaji Sulen-Sule Faskari (of blessed memory,) a noble, pious, successful commercial farmer, entrepreneur, politician and philanthropist and Hajiya Ruqayya (of blessed memory), a noble, pious and complete gentle woman, Hamza started with reading the Holy Qur’an at a tender age.
He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the prestigious Bayero University, Kano in 2004 and a master’s in Public Policy and Administration from his alma mater in 2008. In his ardent pursuit for knowledge, Hamza also obtained an Intensive Certificate in Computer from the Centre for Information Technology of the Bayero University, Kano in 2004 and a diploma in Computer from Government College, Kaduna Cyber Café and Computer Training Centre in 2004.
Hamza Suleiman Faskari joined the Federal Civil Service in 2009 as an administrative officer in-charge of the South-East zone, State Coordination Department of the Federal Character Commission. In 2011, he was appointed as a special assistant to the Senate Deputy Minority Whip, Senator Abu Ibrahim at the National Assembly, Abuja.
The name of Hamza Suleiman is certainly the most pronounced within the entire Funtua senatorial district due to his commitment and contributions in the formation of several political organisations, spreading and defending the ideals of the All Progressives Congress (APC) locally and nationally. His network of political allies, associates and friends cuts across the entire Katsina State and the North-West zone.
It was in recognition of his academic resourcefulness, community service and political contributions at the local government, state and federal levels that Rt. Hon. Aminu Bello Masari (CFR) appointed Hon. Hamza Suleiman Faskari as commissioner in the Ministry of Environment, Katsina State in 2015. He was re-appointed and deployed to the same ministry in 2019 in view of his outstanding performance in the first term.
The ministry, from establishment in 2011, up to 2015, had annually been allocated the sum of N400 million, of which only an average of 60 per cent was released. During his first term in office, Faskari transformed the Ministry of Environment, both in scope and quality of its activities. He facilitated a rapid assessment of the environmental challenges across the state, identified the mitigation and adaptation strategies, classified the strategies into short-term, medium-term and long-term measures and obtained the approval of the government to pursue implementation. This action resulted in the annual increase in budgetary allocations to the sector from over N800 million in 2016 to over N30 billion in 2023, with an average annual release of over 80 per cent.
As a commissioner in the administration of Bello Masari, Hamza Suleiman facilitated the execution of over 300 intervention projects across Katsina State. These projects were executed through the state ecological fund and in collaboration with the World Bank through the Nigerian Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP), Rural Access and Agricultural Marketing Project (RAAMP) and the Agro Climatic Resilience in Semi Arid Landscape Project (ACReSAL).
These interventions resulted in the reactivation of some degraded land areas, construction of roads, pavements, water conservation structures, drainages and other forms of erosion control projects across the entire Katsina State.
The impacts of these projects have significantly addressed the seasonal flooding hitherto experienced by several communities across the state, thereby saving lives, properties and livelihoods.
At the inception of the current administration of Malam Dikko Umaru Radda, PhD, CON in 2023, Suleiman was re-appointed commissioner and deployed to the Ministry of Water Resources. In July 2024, he was re-deployed to the Ministry of Environment in view of the need to sustain efforts he earlier facilitated. This makes him the longest serving commissioner for environment since the creation of the ministry in Katsina State.
He is a successful administrator, politician, businessman and philanthropist. His philanthropic services cut across various sectors, including health, water supply, empowerment, education and traditional/religious affairs, amongst many others.
His achievements in the health sector include rehabilitation of infrastructure, provision of equipment, facilities, vehicles and drugs at the Faskari Maternal and Child Health Centre, Kanon Haki, Nasarawa and Bele Health Clinics in Faskari Local Government Area. He has also supported several medical outreaches, financed surgeries and provided medical support to over 800 health challenged persons within Faskari and Sabuwa local government areas and across the state.
In the water sector, Suleiman routinely supports the provision, management, rehabilitation, upgrading and maintenance of water facilities in Faskari and Sabuwa local government areas.
His empowerment programmes, targeted at family members, friends, political associates, the youth and women, are the provision of vehicles for friends and political associates; quarterly empowering youths and women with skills, trades and tools to support livelihood, and monthly cash assistance to over 100 community-based organisations across the Funtua senatorial district and other zones of the state to boost their economic activities. These have been going on from 2013 till date.
The achievements and ongoing activities in the education sector include periodic provision of learning and teaching materials and aids in primary and secondary schools across Faskari and Sabuwa local government areas. He has sponsored over 100 students across the state in tertiary institutions to graduation levels. Presently, he is sponsoring over 40 students in various tertiary institutions; and from 2011 till date, he has provided project support allowances to final year students of tertiary institutions who are indigenes of Faskari and Sabuwa local government areas. Hon Suleiman has also financed and facilitated the establishment of West African Examination Council (WAEC) examination centres at Government Day Secondary Schools in Yar Nasarawa and Bilbis.
In the traditional/religious sector, Suleiman has annually sponsored family members, friends and associates to perform annual pilgrimages; constructed/rehabilitated Jummu’at Masjids; contributed to the construction and upgrading of several Masjids and Islamiyya schools within and outside the state; annually provides support to orphans, orphanages and several masjid orphans committees; provision of Ramadan palliatives across Funtua zone and beyond; cash and material assistance to traditional and religious leaders during festivities and provision of logistic support (vehicles and motorcycles) to religious leaders to ease preaching and Da’awa across Funtua zone and beyond. These have been going on from 2012 till date.
His unrelenting community service, philanthropic achievements, political and administrative prowess earned him the honour of the conferment with the traditional title of his late father and turbaned as the Wamban Faskari, Faskari district of Katsina State in 2019. Recently, the Emir of Daura conferred on him the traditional title of Sadaukin Kasar Hausa, and is today, Saturday, April 19, 2025, in the historic city of Daura (Tushen Mulkin Kasar Hausa), being installed as the Sadaukin Kasar Hausa I.
Hon Hamza Suleiman is a recipient of several awards, notable amongst which are the Honorary Fellowship of the Nigerian Environmental Society (FNES); Distinguished Fellow and Award of Environmental Sustainability and Waste Management Ambassador in Africa by the African Institute of Waste Management and Environmental Studies; Ambassador African Agenda 2063 – Ambassadorial Assembly by African Union Agenda 2063; Distinguished Fellow (DF) and Award of Best Commissioner of Environmental Health Administration in Nigeria by African Institute of Health Science Research and Administration in Nigeria; Award of Excellence as Climate Action Ambassador by the Society for Climate Action in Nigeria; ICON Leadership award on outstanding achievement in the control of desertification, environmental degradation and infrastructure development in Katsina State by the Presidential Diary magazine and the Gold Medal Award on good governance by Pan African.
Hamza Suleiman (Sadaukin Kasar Hausa I) is productivity, philanthropy and patriotism personified. He inherited all these attributes from his noble background and upbringing. He is happily married.