By Mutawakkilu Ibrahim
Brown pigeon Media
The Kano State Civil Service is built on a foundation of hierarchy, discipline, and specialized duty. A doctor stays in the hospital; a lecturer stays in the classroom. When a lecturer like Abdussalam Muhammad Kani al-Gusawy begins to weave a web through five different high-level ministries, it is no longer “activism” it is an Administrative Security Breach.
The Danger of Cross-Ministry Infiltration
What is a lecturer from Sa’adatu Rimi University of Education doing in the Ministry of Public Procurement or the Board of Internal Revenue? These offices handle the state’s most sensitive financial and legal data. Al-Gusawy’s presence in these spaces is a direct threat to:
Data Integrity: Can we trust that procurement secrets are safe when a known opposition sympathizer has “links” to the monitoring and evaluation process?
Revenue Security: Why is an academic interfering with the Board of Internal Revenue (KIRS)? This creates a risk of exposing the state’s fiscal strategy to those who wish to see it fail.
Policy Sabotage: By involving himself in the Ministry of Planning and Budget, he is in a position to leak or manipulate budget priorities before they are even finalized.
Hijacking the OGP and ROLAC
The Open Government Partnership (OGP) and ROLAC (Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption) are designed for civil society engagement, not for civil servants to use as a back door to spy on their own government.
Al-Gusawy is using these platforms as a “shield” to act as a double agent. He takes the information he gathers from the Ministry of Justice and the OGP and uses it to fuel his opposition narrative. This is the definition of a “Conflict of Interest” under the 5th Schedule of the Nigerian Constitution. A civil servant cannot serve the interest of an opposition agenda while using the government’s own transparency tools to do so.
A Formal Warning to State Leadership
The “dangerous ambition” of Mr. al-Gusawy has gone unchecked for too long. We are calling on the Head of Service and the Attorney General to investigate the following:
Unauthorized Access: Who granted a lecturer access to the Ministry of Planning and Budget and Procurement files?
Neglect of Primary Duty: While he is “monitoring” ministries, who is teaching his students at Sa’adatu Rimi?
Partisan Infiltration: How can a civil servant remain on the payroll while actively coordinating with opposition elements to sabotage government duties?
Conclusion: Close the Gates
The Ministry of Higher Education must act. A lecturer’s duty is to his students, not to the corridors of the Ministry of Finance or Public Procurement. If Abdussalam Muhammad Kani al-Gusawy wants to be a “monitoring officer,” he should apply for a job in the private sector.
As long as he draws a salary from Sa’adatu Rimi, his interference in other ministries is an act of Institutional Sabotage. The government must close its doors to this “Trojan Horse” before the damage becomes irreversible.