We are equal before God, be your brother’s Keeper – Hon Saidu Dibis tells Nigerians

We are equal before God, be your brother’s Keeper – Hon Saidu Dibis tells Nigerians

Zainab Tanimu

Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria

Hon. Saidu Idris Dibis, aka couch, is one man who believes in the spirit of oneness. That which is devoid of tribal or religious connotation.

The focused and easy going sportsman

is calling on the well – to – do and those blessed with the milk of human kindness to come to the aids of the needy as God loves those who give.

He made this appeal while revealing a

pathetic story of one madam Abigail, a widow who together with her two children hawk late into the night, ‘liquid soap’ which hardly sustain their needs.

Hon. Dibis speaking to journalists on  roving who together with him visited her home narrates how fate brought him in contact with the family.

“I came across madam Abigail and her two kids on the street in the night, in Barnawa at about 11.30pm hawking liquid soap to keep body and soul together. Such a pathetic situation .  I must say there are many of them like Abigail all over the place.

“This woman needs help. Look, l am a Muslim. Forget about her being a Christian or from a different tribe. I am a Muslim, my religion teaches me that we are all human irrespective of difference in faith. Respect should be accorded accordingly as human beings. All that matters is that you’re a human being and these children l look at them as my children, so we just have to do what we can do to assist her.

“This is her neighbor, Joseph, a wonderful guy. Since l met them that night, he has been communicating with me. So, yesterday while in government house receiving those abducted released school children, he communicated and l promised to  be around. So today here l am, with her phone that l promised. Thank God, Allah has made it possible for me to keep to my promise.”

Hon Debis aside keeping to his promise of buying, madam Abigail a phone for easy communication also came along with some food items for her and the children. Not only that, he also promised to see to the education of her children.

He said, “from today onward, l promise to do everything humanly possible to treat these children like my children, and also take them back to school.

Still pleading, he said.

“The little you can give will go a long way to make them survive. If these two kids, who are leaders of tomorrow are not in primary school, and we are happy and if they grow up like this, we will  be expecting different human beings at a later day.

Mrs Abigail dumbfounded with such humanly love extended to her and the children while receiving her phone broke into tears. She thanked the honourable for his gesture as she prayed for him and all that have been supportive for God’s reward.

According to her, “l just want to thank you because l did not expect all these things. When l came here, l did not have handset, l did not have food to eat.

I am really happy. My heart is full of joy today. I soak gari’ this morning, l eat bread this afternoon and l begin to ask myself, what l am going to eat again? Really, I am tired, no food to eat, not to talk of handset. If l want to call people, l will just go and beg people to borrow me handset. My children have been telling me that, mummy,  we are tired of waka-waka up and down. I keep telling them, don’t worry, I say everything is in God’s care.

“I know that l don’t have anything but God, look at what God has done for me. I don’t even expect that you can do this kind of thing for me. I am grateful.

“I am happy today because l am full of joy, over happiness is what is making me shed tears because you people don’t know what l have been passing through. My neighbors are the ones that cook food and give my children to eat. Even my landlady, l use to collect credit to give my children food to eat for there is nothing for me to do.

What an experience. This is a very good month to help, month of Ramadan. Please contribute in putting smiles on peoples faces as Allah promises reward for such beings.

My Governor, Uba Sani, is one governor who cherishes the act of compassion. “Putting smiles on peoples faces.” He chipped in.