WHAT A SELECTIVE MOURNING!

To mourn the death of someone is not a crime but it is when the death of ONE reputable elite is given weight much more than the death of hundreds others massacred in single swoop in different locations by cattle rustlers. Such selective mourning depicting heartlessness and despicable sycophancy is clearly shown by Zamfara Radio which for three days has been mourning the demise of Umaru Shinkafi, with spiritual songs, putting a halt to all its programmes.
How on earth is the life of such an elite better than the lives of 79 people killed at 'Yar Galadima village or the 42 peasants lynched at Gidan Kaso village, or the 48 people slain at Kizara village and several other places in the state!
I wonder if the lives of these people are not worth mourning! It is disheartening that social or political status is unashamedly taken as determining factor for the value of human life. Come to think of it, what would any sane man expect of a sentuagenarian hitting close to 80 years old if not the natural withering of the body and the ultimate demise? Now, compare this with the loss of muscled-bodied youths who as rustic farmers and cattle herders have been feeding the people of the cities with the toil of their own hands.
In the house of empty skulls called Zamfara Radio, humanity is trampled by the hordes of boot-licking ignoramuses and chattering baboons who never tell a leader to mind his path in any of their editorial. The only thing they are good at is spewing balderdash coated in lies upon lies to serve their masters for cheap scores. It is obvious that Sokoto shares the painful bereavement owing to Umaru Shinkafi’s royal, marital and residential relation with the state, yet Rima Radio didn’t spend three days mourning. The deceased relation with Sokoto seemed to have even outweighed that of Zamfara, the fact acknowledged by the President Buhari via his spokesman Femi Adesina, who only condoled and commiserated with the people of Sokoto and not Zamfara.

FILM VILLAGE: A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVES

The Film Village has gone down the drain for good, having been smothered by the forceful outcry of the masses on the social media and well-evidenced verdict of the Islamic scholars from the lofty pulpits of the Masaajeeds. 
However, there is conflicting opinion from the West-programmed souls who cite economic benefits of the project and believe it is the beauty of modernity. However, modernity is not stuff to be swallowed whole, there are fragments to throw away in the same way you throw hard bones away when you eat meat. So, I am also of the opinion that if economy is your religion, then you are free to hold such view and likewise if Islam is your religion then you must be ready to submit to the dictates of Islam. They point to the obvious fact that many anti-Film village ''rhetorics'' are aired by people who are actually addicted to movies. This they label as utmost ''hypocrisy''. Well, that is pure speculation because there no data to prove such an accusation. Let's assume for assume for a moment that we (the anti-Film Village ''hypocrites'') are patronizing such movies behind the scene, is it right for a sick person to consume something that makes our sickness worse? I think Abubakar Abdulsalam should answer this question. His write-up on the issue is neatly-woven textually but semantically abhorrent especially at the point where the writer clearly attribute insanity to anyone who share not his view, asserting that people like me should ''consult psychiatrist''. Nobody is claiming to be a saint just because he expresses displeasure over Film Village project. Some pro-Film Village rhetoricians have gone too far as to describe the action of the Islamic scholars in so harsh a word. Listen to Jaafar Jaafar when he said: ''They switched on their microphones, mounted the pulpit and started ranting.'' Labeling a Khutbah which was woven with golden strings of the Glorious Qur'an and the Sunnah of the Prophet as ''ranting'' is objectionable.
Opinion is a matter of perspective but I am amazed whenever an issue is viewed from wrong perspective. Political analysts like my friend Nuruddeen Shuaib Copa should be making objective analysis not such narrow thinking as to equate Film Village to internet.