Words on Marble - The Making Of Kwankwaso

 “The majority of technicians in Kano are from the south while untrained indigenes beg. How does that make sense?”

 If this is a true saying from Emir Sanusi, then Rabiu Kwankwaso has a huge responsibility to appreciate the man that developed his community and forever pay allegiance to Ndigbo for the singular act of one man, rather than make hate speeches, he must incorporate the Igbos and project their true nature which is peaceful co-existence. ( Making a Home away from home).

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In Kano, the town of Kwankwaso where the former Governor of Kano state, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso is from is believed to have been founded by an Igbo man named Felix Okonkwo, alias Okonkwo Kano who was a member of the Northern Nigeria House of chiefs in 1957.

At about 1927 he had founded a trading business at the railway tracks approaching Kano where he bought groundnuts, processed it and transported it to Lagos and named his business Okonkwo and Sons. He had a large sign board. The native born Kano people called it Okonkwosons which eventually became Kwankwasons and eventually Kwankwaso.

After spending 90 years in Kano, would Okonkwo’s sons now leave and return to the Southeast? We do not have to learn from our mistakes. Let us be wise and learn from the mistakes of Uganda and Zimbabwe.

If it is implemented, this quit notice will affect the Igbos for a little while. But they are resilient. They will overcome it within a short time. But will those quitting them be able to overcome it?”-

~ Emir of Kano, HRM Muhammadu Sanusi II