Today in History: Former Senate President Chuba Okadigbo Was Gassed To Dying
By Jamilu Uba Adamu
Late Mallam Sa’adu Zungur (1915 – 1958) in his tune Arewa Mulukiya ko Jamhuriya stated;
“Ya Sarki Alhaji Bayero,
Ga Yan birni da Kanawiya.
Tun Bagauda na saran Kano, Suka fara fataucin dukiya.”
Throughout its historical past Kano State have been a buying and selling and necessary industrial heart. History have proven that Kano has produced fairly a lot of rich people that their names will all the time be there within the annals of historical past.
The capacity of Kano and Kanawa to create rich people didn’t begin on this trendy period. The like of Madugu Indo Adakawa, Muhammadu Dan Agigi, and Madugu Dangomba, Umaru Sharubutu, Mai Kano Agogo, Alhasasan Dantata, Adamu Jakada, Muhammad Nagoda and lots of others have been among the many rich people that Kano produce.
Late Alh. Haruna Kundila (1810 – 1901 ) was recognized for his nice wealth and fortune within the pre-colonial Kano in the course of the reign of Emir Abdullahi Maje Karofi and his successor Emir Bello Ibrahim Dabo.
There was this fashionable Hausa saying attributed to him ; Bana siyarwa bane ya gagari Kundila, actually that means that there’s nothing Kundila can’t afford to purchase except if it’s not on the market, due to his huge wealth and buying energy.
Haruna Kundila was born in 1810 at Makwarari Quarters in Kano metropolis.
The story about his supply of wealth says that ” someday when he got here out from home, he met Mallam Sidi ( in response to the story Mallam Sidi, is a Pious God fearing Islamic trainer, that many individuals consider that he’s a “Waliyyi’ ) and Mallam Sidi asked Kundila how he can help him get those that can evacuate his sewer pit ? Kundila answered him in positive. When he checked and couldn’t find anyone to do the job, he decided to do it by himself. When the Mallam came back and asked him weather he find out the people? He told him that the people have already came and do the work, Mallam Sidi asked him again “How much they were supposed to be paid for the work? But suddenly someone that witness how Kundila did the work alone, intercede and told Mallam that Kundila do the work by himself. When the Mallam heard that, he shake his head and said; To , Insha Allahu,duk inda warin masan nan ya buga gabas da Yamma, Kudu da Arewa sai kayi suna ka shahara an sanka ”
History inform us that Haruna Kundila who was a slave dealer in these days, had a commerce relations with merchants coming to kano from overseas international locations comparable to Mali,Sudan,Libya, Senegal,Damagaram,Agadas,Garwa,Duwala,Bamyo and Fallomi.
In his heyday’s, there is no such thing as a one in Kano with Kundila’s wealth. Kundila was very wealthy and had estates by every of the town gates (Kofofi). It was stated that he owned multiple thousand slaves. In reality he was the wealthiest dealer in Nineteen century Kano.
The motive behind the identify Kundila; historical past inform us that, Haruna has a youthful sister named Binta who follows him in beginning. After she grew up, someday Haruna went house and located his sister in thier mom’s room, he stated to her ” Please Binta, “Miko min Kundina” the sister began to be repeating the phrases “Ina Kundina? Ina Kundina? Since that point the identify Kundila adopted him for the remainder of his life. Up until at the moment some Government housing property in Kano bear the identify, instance Kundilar Zaria street.
It was stated that when he died in 1901 (two years earlier than the British Conquest of Kano) Kano was shaken for the lack of one the best wealthiest particular person in it’s historical past.
