Zamfara Govt. donates food items, cash to family of late Sun Correspondent
The Zamfara State Government has donated assorted food items and an undisclosed amount of money to the family of late Sun Correspondent, Mohammed Munirat Nasir.
This is contained in a statement issued by the Permanent Secretary of the State Ministry of Information, Barrister Sani Nasarawa.
The food items donated included 4 cartons of indomie, 4 bags of rice (50kg), 2 cartons of Spaghetti, 2 cartons of Marconi, cooking oil (50kg) and 16 packs of swan water.
Mohammed Nasir who died following a brief illness in Kaduna left behind one Wife and Four Children.
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The State Commissioner for Information, Alhaji Ibrahim Magaji Dosara presented t food items and cash to the wife of the deceased, Maryam Mohammed Munirat on behalf of the governor, Bello Matawalle at the deceased resident in Kaduna.
Dosara said “on behalf of the governor, Matawalle, I wish to present these food items as support to the family he left behind”.
Matawalle said he was devasted when he heard of the sad news of his death, saying that late Munirat was a very good man who had an excellent relationship with me, government and people of the state.
“The deceased reported the state in positive light during his short stay in the state even at the detriment of being sanctioned by some of his colleagues.
“The deceased was a thorough developmental journalist and not one of those armed chair journalists who stay in the comfort of their rooms to dish out false and fake news without recourse to abiding with the ethics of the profession”, he explained.
While, urging his family to take solace in the Qur’anic verse that says ‘Every soul shall have the taste of death’ Dosara prayed to Allah to forgive his shortcomings and grant him Aljannah firdausi.
Responding, the wife of the deceased, Maryam Mohammed said, ‘We least expected this gesture from the government , saying, she was happy with the encomiums and praises she had been receiving from his colleagues and friends particularly from Zamfara State.
