Prof. Jubril Aminu was once the VC of The University of Maiduguri. During his tenure, there was an Aluta struggle and some students were rusticated.
Four of the rusticated students came to Chief Gani Fawehinmi to challenge the action.
He fought the case to the Supreme Court & won. The students went back to complete their studies.
Later, Chief Gani Fawehinmi was arrested over his Anti-SAP Conference and was flown to Maiduguri, then driven to Gashua. At the Lagos airport, not knowing where he was being taken to by the security men, Gani played a fast one - he told his captors that he wanted to use the toilet.
He got inside the toilet and quickly scribbled on a toilet paper - "To whoever uses this toilet, this is Gani Fawehinmi. I am being flown to an unknown destination by security men. Please, let the whole world know." He placed it in a conspicuous place, flushed the toilet as if he just used it and came out.
When they got to Maiduguri, they had a brief stop over at the SSS Office, where a lady officer offered Gani a cup of coffee.
Gani was hooked on coffee like drug. But this time, the will power of Gani came on. He told the lady officer - "so you people have got information that l can't do without coffee" You think you can poison me? From, today, I stop taking coffee ". That was how he ended his addiction to coffee.
He was later moved to Gashua prison, in a most decrepit cell where he collapsed after some substances were sprayed in the cell.
He was rushed to the University of Maiduguri Teaching hospital. When he regained consciousness, he found a doctor examining him and he protested, asking the doctor not to touch him.
The Medical Doctor, not wanting the security men guarding him to hear, he whispered to Gani's ear - "Chief, relax you are in safe hands. Can't you recognise me?, I am..., one of the medical students rusticated whom you fought for our reinstatement. I am now a doctor. So, relax. You are in safe hands".
And that was how Chief Gani Fawehinmi's life was saved - reaping from the good deeds he did earlier, which he had forgotten.
Moral Lesson Of The Story:
Do good always and it shall come back to you
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COPIED FROM "THE AFRICAN HISTORY ARCHIVE."
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And the story continued with a great lesson on how to show due gratitude. Says Socrates:" One of the higher human emotions is the Due show of gratitude. " While in prison, I happened to be one of the journalists who persistently wrote articles against Gani Fawehinmi's unlawful detention. Immediately he was released, he sent me this letter of appreciation. The way I smuggled into his hands, a copy of my first poetry book: ""HEROISM, SONGS AND TROUBLES " amid tight security by " kill and go " security network, is another story entirely.
OLALERE FAGBOLA
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