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By Abdullahi Alhassan
Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle has donated food items and an undisclosed amount of money to the family of late Sun Newspaper Reporter Mohammed Nasir Munirat in Kaduna on Saturday.
The state commissioner for Information, Ibrahim Magaji Dosara, presented the food items and cash to the deceased’s wife, Maryam Mohammed Munirat, on behalf of the governor, saying, “On behalf of the governor, I wish to present these food items as support to the family he left behind.”
‘Late Munirat was a very good man who had an excellent relationship with me, the government, and the people of the state,’ Matawalle said, describing himself as “devastated” by the news of his death.
Matawalle recalled how the deceased Reporter painted a positive picture of the state during his brief stay in the state, despite being chastised by some of his colleagues.
‘The deceased was a thorough developmental journalist, not one of those armed chair journalists who sit in the comfort of their rooms dishing out false and fake news without regard for the profession’s ethics.
While urging his family to take solace in the Qur’anic verse that says ‘Every soul shall have the taste of death’ he prayed to Allah to forgive his shortcomings and grant him Aljannah Firdausi. ‘We least expected this gesture from the government,’ Maryam Mohammed, the deceased’s wife, said, adding that she was pleased with the encomiums and praises she had been receiving from his colleagues and friends, particularly from Zamfara State.