31-3-2025.

On Friday March 28th, 2025, some Northern Muslims young hunters were travelling in trucks to Kano, with their Dane guns and other equipment of local hunting, when 16 among them were hacked and burnt by so called vigilantes in Uromi, Edo state, Southern Nigeria.

Northerners, or those derogatorily referred to as  ‘Malams’ in the Southern part (especially the South East and the South South geo political zones) of the country, have become fair game to be MURDERED with IMPUNITY at the slightest opportunity, without any or serious action by the federal and the state (where the barbarity took place) governments, as well as by those charged with maintaining law and order in the country.

I have decided to start this article with the story of the MOMENT, so that the ever HELFUL ‘Katsina Charity Support Foundation’ could wade in and do what it does best, offering ASSISTANCE to the NEEDY in times of a great need. The organisation usually does that. And no time of need comes greater than when a person has permanently lost their breadwinner suddenly for good, at the time they are joyfully looking forward to seeing them after their prolonged absence in far away terrains, seeking for what to LEGALLY and LEGITIMATELY bring to the table. More so, at a time when the central government appears not to worry too much about the flight of the Northern region.

Even without the additional ‘burden’ of the Uromi CALLOUS and SADISTIC murders of the 16 INNOCENT Northerners, the organisation was already doing a commendable job, providing food (in both raw and prepared forms), monetary and other forms of assistance to those who need them in its immediate environs and beyond since 2020 (five years ago).

To be sure, the families of those butchered by the lawless BARBARIANS in Edo State, are definitely in need of assistance at this material time of Eid El Fitri, which they will however, ‘observe’ without their  breadwinners, who they will never see again in this world.

As has been its wont these past years, the group has been no less HELFUL this year too. The Katsina Charity Support Foundation was able to secure the release of thirty one (31) prison inmates in Katsina state. Eleven (11) males and twenty (20) females. The released prisoners are too many for this article to mention all of them. Besides, the helpful intervention was purposely done for the sake of God, so that the beneficiaries will be home to celebrate the then forthcoming Eid with their families. It was  not done for any momentary applause.

 

Some of the males who regained their freedom from prison include, but not limited to, Malam Ahmed Lawal, Malam Sani Kabir, Malam AbdulLahi Usman, Malm Aliyu Umar, Malam Shamsudeen Abubakar, Malam Usman Abubakar, Malam Jume Zaiyana, Malam AbdulLahi Abubakar and Malam Abubakar Ilyasu.

Their female counterparts include, but not only, Malama Jamila Yahaya, Malama Sa’adiyya AbdusSamadu, Malama Asabe Mamman, Malama Maryam Rabi’u, Malama Safinatu Umar, Malama Safina Lawal, Malama Murja Ali Babba and Malama Ummi Mama Yarbiyu.

Even before being involved with the release of the release of the inmate from prison, the foundation has been fulfilling the mandate for which it was established. But its usefulness and utility are even more desirable NOW than in the past. And it was established some five (5) years ago, 2020, to be precise.

Founded and driven by equally minded Good Samaritans for the purpose of feeding the poor in and around Katsina city society, the Katsina Charity Support Group is funded by the financial contributions of good wealthy, and the not so wealthy members of the Katsina City WhatsApp community, who, individually donate to the organisation whatever they could afford. While some contribute as much as N1 million and below, others give their Widow’s mite, in the commendable spirit of being their brother and sister’s keepers during the Holy month of Ramadan.

But for the Ramadan assistance of such groups (coupled with the all-year round fasting assistance of big philanthropists like Dangote, BUA, MANGAL and their likes), survival in the country would have been too taxing for many poor compatriots in Nigeria, where there is a rampaging poverty that only the very rich can survive unscathed.

The organisation, in a report signed by the Chairman of the Foundation, Alhaji Lawal Aliyu Daura, mani (former Head of Service of Katsina State) and the Secretary and publisher of the online magazine, Katsina City News, Malam Danjuma Mohammed Katsina, is said to have spent thirty million  naira (N30 million) in feeding the poor in the society, at the Katsina orphanage, and at the home of the indigents, from its founding in 2020 to 2025.

The Katsina Charity Support Foundation has generated the sum of six million and one hundred thousand naira (6.1 million) in the in 2025, added the report, a copy of which this writer got hold of.

May God give us the opportunity to serve humanity for His sake, not for rewards of any kind in the present world.

Malumfashi wrote from Katsina.