About ten years ago, young and aspiring lawyers would have heard the name Aminu Gamawa, a lawyer of northern extraction who was cutting his teeth in academia and establishing himself as a soon-to-be star in policy development. Many of those around him saw him as an anti-corruption advocate with a penchant for honesty, truth, and facts.
Today, all those honors and accolades have been dropped by Dr. Aminu Gamawa into the bin for cheap Naira. Dr. Gamawa, a once highly sought-after young legal luminary, has now sold his character, dignity, and integrity for loyalty to the purse of Bauchi State.
I was ashamed of him when I read his rather watery and dodgy response to Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar, defending allegations against his boss, Bala Mohammed. The Aminu Gamawa of ten years ago would never have taken such a position. That man, then a fan of anti-corruption czars, took the ideals of puritanical decency seriously. Today, he is slaving to his boss and forgetting the credo he once stood for. It is a shame.
Indeed, I perfectly understand that Bala Mohammed is his boss, and it is only fair that he would stand by him. But again, I ask does he not have an iota of shame?
In his shameful treatise, Aminu Gamawa talked about his party winning elections, he forgets that his boss did not win the 2023 gubernatorial election in Gamawa? He has not asked himself that perhaps it is because of people like him who were not adding value to people lives that his boss could not win in Gamawa? By the way, I must put it on record that the APC won the House of Representatives seat and the State Assembly and only one State Assembly seat for PDD in Gamawa.
Coming back home, the flood disaster of 2024 that devastated the Gamawa Local Government is a pointer to the kind of leadership and representation people like Aminu Gamawa offer in Bala Mohammed’s Government in Bauchi State. As a son of this constituency did you even visit to commiserate with the people? What about palliatives and other measures to resettle and cushion the effect of that monumental disaster? At least the Minister and members House of Representatives visited and offered various kinds of relief.
We remember vividly all those pictures of dilapidated classrooms in Bauchi State you used to show us on Facebook, depicting the rot that you said the state had become. Are they not there anymore? Has anything changed since then?
There is also the issue of the grazing reserve allocation to Tiamin Rice which cannot just be defended. Firstly, the rice mill is located in Bauchi almost 250km away as if there is no available land in Bauchi South? What kind of business sense is this? Is it because we don’t have a voice in your Government because of people like you?