By Mohammad Lawal Maikudi
Mrs Abigail will forever remain grateful to God for coming to her aid at a very critical stage and situation of her life on Tuesday, March 26.
Abigai lost her husband about six years ago and has been struggling to survive with the three children her husband left behind. The children are aged 12, 8 and 4 and solely depend on her for their survival.
She engaged in production and sale of liquid soap with a capital of not more than five thousand naira. She lives in a rented room with the children and and sometimes sleep on empty stomachs when she could could not make sales of what she produced or secure assistance from her neighbours or good Samaritans, especially her neighbours.
Paying rent was Herculean for her which makes her landlady to wave some part of the rent, a step Abigal described with unquantified appreciation.
Due to the critical situation Abigal finds herself, she sent the eldest child, a girl to her mother back in the village and retain the two. And wherever she goes to sell her whares, she goes along with them because she cannot afford to send them to school despite being of school age.
Abigal said she was scared of leaving them behind because of fear that they more fall into wrong hands and that would compound her predicament.
But succour came her way on Monday night around 11.30 in Barnawa when she was still hoping to make sales to raise money they will buy food for dinner and what they would use for breakfast the following morning before returning to her home in Nasarawa.
It was at that juncture they jammed with Hon Sa:idu Idris Dibis, aka couch, SA to Governor Uba Sani on sports development, who went to Barnawa to buy roasted fish. On seeing her situation, which attracted his attention, the level of humanity in him rose.
When she finished narrating her ordeal Hon Dibis became worried, and the humanity in him felt challenged and the desire to assist her evoked and requested her to show him her residence. After locating the residence through the assistance of some youths, Hon Dibis offered to her the sum of five thousand naira to boost her capital and additional two thousand naira for her and the children to eat.
Hon Dibis promised to return to her on Tuesday and that she should remain at home and wait for him, with a promise to enrol the children in school, provide them with uniform, books when schools reopen after Sallah.
So on Tuesday, Hon Dibis returned to the house as he promised, met the lady with her kids waiting for him. While he was going he took some foodstuff and a mobile telephone for Abigal.
Her and her children, her landlady were over joyed and prayerful to God for the intervention and expressed that they lack enough words to thank Hon Dibis
As to why Hon Dibis reasons for taking the decision to assist the lady, he said it was the humanity in him and the mentoring of his principal, Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State that ” we should assist the needy to the best of our ability.”
