Aminu Kano. 40 years. April 17 1983

[Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth]

Aminu Kano born August  9 1920 died aptil 17 1983.40 years ago 

He founded and led the Northern Elements Proggressive Union (NEPU) in the first Republic and People Redemption Party (PRP) in the second Republic.   The people of Northern part of Nigeria during the pre-colonial and post-colonial period were living in a period that the aristocrats and feudalanozno class subject  the talakawa's to a status that do not even befit a slave . It was a period that naked and brutal tyranny , oppression , suppression , domination and exploitation were foisted on the talakawa's.   The talakawa's were subjected to all sorts of hardship by the aristocratic and feudal class ofd the time. They were made to pay different types of exobitant taxes , they(talakawa's) were forced to provide free labour by farming in farmlands owned by the feudal class , when the feudals are on tour to districts under their control owners of houses are forced out of their homes for their accomodation using all household materials and in some cases with the maiden inclusive!   It was during this period of tyranny and oppression that Mallam Aminu Kano emerged . He called on the people to resist oppression and tyranny , to be regarded also as humans with freedom and dignity. With formation of NEPU , the talakawa's joined the party enmassed which made the local authoirities and traditional rulers to be uncomfortable with ideology and members of NEPU.
  Due to NEPU's call for the emacipitation of talakawa's , thousands of NEPU's members and supporters were jailed , forced into exile , tortured and some even killed . Mallam's NEPU was indeed the real mass movement in the modern