The Periscope Reporter
Innalillah Wa Innaa Ilaihirraaji’uun!
It was Ziggy, a character in 1999 Award winning movie “Light It Up” who philosophised that life is not how long one lives but how he lives and what what he leaves behind; the question.
Buddha equally articulated that “the value of life is not based on how long we live, but how much we contribute to others in our society.”
Ummi Sudasa was not only a wife and mother of three, she was Ummi of philanthropy who hearkened to the call of the indigent for succour. The ADC Chairman Adamawa state. Hon Arabi Mustapha lamented while registering his condolence.
Mustapha said, Sudasa, the wife of former lawmaker, representing Yola North in the Adamawa State House of Assembly, Hon Suleiman Alkali, popularly known as PA, was not a politician and her indescribable generosity has in anyway no connection to politics.
“Ummi was indeed amiably amazing, it isn’t exaggeration tagging her as philanthropic a mother.
“Till her final call to great beyond; over two years when her husband left the constituency representation, Ummi continued her philanthropic gestures cut accross Yola North, Yola South and even beyond.
“There’s poverty she provided palliative measures, more than the intervention by some of the elected politicians.
“That’s why her death subjected teaming people in Jimeta and Yola to mourning. It is indeed an irreparable loss to Adamawa State,” Mustapha lamented.
In the words of Helen Steiner Rice:
“But by the deeds that you do and the joy that you give-
And each day as it comes
brings a chance to each one
To love to the fullest,
leaving nothing undone
That would brighten the life
or lighten the load
Of some weary traveler
lost on Life’s Road-
So what does it matter
how long we may live
If as long as we live
we unselfishly give”.
May Allah SWT forgive her and grant her Jannatul Firdaus. May Allah bless the children she left behind and grant the husband and family the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.