To intrude according to the dictionary is a situation where one goes into a place or situation in which he is not wanted or not expected to be in that particular place and at that particular time. It also means to go into a place or be involved in a situation where one is not wanted, welcome or does not belong.
Therefore, if what is happening in the sports cycle of Kano state is not arrested or stopped without delay, sports in Kano will go nowhere despite the huge government financial and unflinching support and efforts to develop it.
I see it just like a situation where the government is doing its very best to develop sports but one of its agencies is destroying it. Which is bad.
So if what I am hearing is true or becomes true then the Kano State Sports Commission is wrong and has committed yet another blunder which can easily consume them.
To me, their action if found to be true is totally wrong, insane and disrespectful to the constituted authority which is very wrong and unacceptable.
Few days ago, it started as speculation but now has turned to be true that the management of Kano State Sports Commission has for the second time re-posted back the former secretary of Kano Pillars Football Club, Abbati Sabo Abba to reclaim his former seat from Doctor Sani Ibrahim Fagge.
The action of the Sports Commission was sequel to their poor and faulty belief and perception that they are the custadian of all sports in the state.
The commission thinks they have the powers and the rights to intrude or to post any person of their wish and choice to head the secretariat of any sporting body in the state.
Not knowing that from the available documents that established the two bodies, both Kano Pillars FC and Sports Commission are different and separate entities, government establishments which are supposed to work or function separately.
The commission failed to know and appreciate the fact that it is an Edict that established and regulated them so it is for Kano Pillars FC.
It is a pity that the commission does not know their limits and boundaries and that explains why they are venturing into affairs that they have no business into.
Effecting the ill-fated action of sending Abbati Sabo back to serve as the secretary of the team is a big mistake because I see it as a clear challenge to the orders of the constituted authority.
My position from the above was based on the fact that Comrade Sani Ibrahim Fagge was appointed by the government to serve as the secretary of the club’s management board by His Excellency the Governor of Kano State, Engr. Abba Kabir Yusuf, which to most of us superseded any other body or person.
And I recalled that it was the governor Engr Abba Kabir Yusuf not any other person that made Dr. Sani Ibrahim the secretary of Kano Pillars along with twelve others to serve in a 13-man management committee headed by Babangida Little to lead the board.
But the very day Babangida Little was handed the mantle of the club leadership, he went solo and worked alone, leaving all the remaining members out of any information of the team despite being members of the team’s management committee.
I remembered that all efforts to bring the chairman to order to see reason and change his ways of doing things by the management members of the team and others failed as Little instead then relocated the club’s secretariat from Sani Abacha Stadium to sports commission and continued working with the sports commission appointed secretary of the team only believing the rest in total darkness on what is happening in the team.
This did not go down well with the rest of the members of the committee and therefore took their case to Ogan Boye, the then Special Advisor on Youth and Sports Development to the governor of Kano state.
I was aware about Ogan Boye’s effort to make Babangida Little see reasons and work with his committee did not yield any fruit which irked all of them.
And that made Doctor Sani Ibrahim to put his pen on paper and write a letter of complaints to the office of the SSG and copied it to the governor.
I remembered publishing a story on the 27th of October in my site last year titled: For solving Kano Pillars crisis: I doff my hat for Gov Abba Kabir Yusuf. In the above titled write up, I commended Governor Abba for doing the right thing at the right time.
At first we all thought nothing would have happened from the government side because of the situation the state was in then.
But to our surprised, the governor on the receipt of a copy of Dr. Sani Ibrahim’s letter quickly directed the then state commissioner of rural development who was then the acting commissioner of sports, Hon Hamza Safiyanu Kachako to call for a meeting with all those involved in the issue together with some aides of the governor.
The chairman Babangida Little, the secretary of the management board, Dr. Sani Ibrahim and other eleven members all answered the call, where the governor directed for the right things to be done in the running of the team and expected nothing else.
The governor also directed the then acting commissioner of sports to make sure that all things are done correctly and warned about its reoccurrences.
There, then the sports commission appointed secretary was asked to retire back to his commission for another reassignment.
The club chairman was then asked to stop acting like a sole administrator but as a chairman of a committee which he must work with and also listen to always.
The governor’s words to the chairman had really touched everybody present at the meeting and also put smiles and hopes on all the faces of the 12 remaining members of the committee including the secretary of the board.
Because they were sad that the chairman whom they were appointed together with had refused them time and access to sit and discuss the team and all the problems the team is facing since their appointments.
Dr. Sani Ibrahim’s letter had reported the chairman to the office of the SSG for hiding or covering the club’s activities which they ought to know about.
He accused him for doing things singly without the board’s input or approval which he sees as wrong and contravened civil service rules.
The board secretary blamed the chairman of not showing any sign of purposeful leadership and commitment to serve and carry everybody along as assigned to him by the Kano state government under leadership of Engr Abba Kabir Yusuf.
He castigated the chairman of running the club singly from day one, the very day they were inaugurated to the time of presenting that letter without the board’s consent or approval which he said was contrary to Section 1 of the guiding rules and regulations of the board.
Dr. Sani also revealed that under section 2 of the guiding rules for the board, the board during one of its first meetings after inauguration by the SSG formed five standing committees to ease its day to day operations but the chairman singlehandedly with no cogent reasons sacked all of them.
In fact, Dr. Sani Ibrahim revealed a lot in his letter which was touching. He raised eyebrows on the recruitment of 30-36 technical crew positions for both Kano Pillars FC senior team, Kano Pillars FC junior team, Kano Pillars FC Under 15 and Kano Pillars Under 13 and also the recruitment of supporting staffers of all the teams listed above without board’s inputs.
The secretary also blamed the chairman for establishing his secretariat and board members out of the ones appropriately appointed by the government and operating in a different secretariat (Sports Commission) different from the one of the team for selfish interest.
Comrade Sani Ibrahim also indicted the chairman for disallowing the club’s out-gone secretary to handover the club’s activities to him.
My question here to the Kano State Sports Commission is, are they unaware about the above mentioned development which made the governor to give that order or what?
To me, the actions of the commission is negligence to duty, a glare of disrespect and insubordination to the office of the number one citizen of the state.
And whoever is given them orders or directives to disrespect the governor’s order is pushing them to a point of no return which if care is not taken will sweep all of them away from the commission.
The commission must know that it was the governor that ordered Dr. Sani Ibrahim to take over the secretariat of the club. The commission has no right or power to challenge or disobey His Excellency’s order.
If I should remind them, they should be very busy bringing out programmes that will help the government to develop sports without intruding into where they have no business at all.
The Kano State Sports Commission must know that Kano Pillars is not under them and they must stop intruding into its affairs.
Idan kunne ya ji…
