Tsakuwa Mufarka Sustainable Development Association has commiserated with the Bauchi State Government and the State Council of Chiefs over the death of the Emir of Ningi, Alhaji Yunusa Muhammad Danyaya.
The community’s condolence message was conveyed in a statement by its chairman Alhaji Tasiu Alhassan, in Kano on Sunday.
The statement described the late monarch as “someone whose words of wisdom, nobility and decency will be sorely missed, especially at this trying moment”.
Alhaji Tasiu Alhassan prayed that the Almighty God would forgive the shortcomings of the Emir, remember his good works and grant his soul eternal rest.
Late Emir of Ningi, Alhaji Yunusa Muhammad Danyaya, died on Sunday three days after a medical trip to Saudi Arabia.
He was a descendant of Ningi rulers who migrated from Tsakuwa town, Dawakin Kudu local government area in Kano State.
Emir Danyaya extended the royal milk of kindness to all and sundry during his 46- year reign.
After early education in the then Bauchi Province, he proceeded to the School of Hygiene, Kano in 1951 where he qualified as s Public Health practitioner.
The emir began active contributions to his native Ningi Native Authority, the defunct Northern Region, former North East government and the present Bauchi State.
The late monarch also had a stint in the private sector at the Nigerian Tobacco Company and the Northern States Marketing Board.
His devotion, dedication and commitment to duties assigned were examplary. He chaired the Assets of the Marketing Board between other Northern States and theformer Benue- Plateau State when the latter pulled out.
Emir Danyaya represented the Bauchi State Council of Chiefs under the Shagari government’s National Council of States between 1979-83.
A recipient of the National Honour Award, the OON, the late Emir had been the Chair, Bauchi State Inter- Religious Council since 2005; and Chairman, Environmental Health Officers Registration Council of Nigeria( EHORECON) since 2004. He was a member of the National Constitutional Conference in 1994-95.
A man of great honour and conviction, Emir Danyaya was the first and only leading public figure in Nigeria to have sent warning signals to Nigerian political office holders to steer- off traditional institutions when signs of apparent skirmishes began to manifest between the last Kano State Government and the Kano Emirate Council in 2019.
In 2023, he read the riot act to all traditional rulers under his domain not to harbour bandits or their accomplices in their areas or face dismissal.
The people of Ningi Emirate attest to the late Monarch’s sense of justice, fairness and equity.