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PROFILE OF ALH BUKAR IBN ALI ELKANEMI

Late Emir of Damaturu!!!

Born to Abba Ali Shehu Kyari and Hajja Fatime in 1944 in Gujba L.G. A of then Borno state, present Yobe State. Alh. Bukar happen to be the 3rd child to his Father but 1st and only to his Mother, Hajja Fatime Surambu. Start his education carrier from 1953. After completion of secondary education, he was briefly enlisted into Nigerian Air Force in second squadron early in 1964 but later discharged and joined the defunct Northern Nigeria government as a cooperative officer. He also attended cooperative basics courses in ABU institute of Administration-Zaria until 1965. Alh. Bukar was appointed the Ajah (District Head) of Gujba on 16th of June 1977. And member, Borno state council for Arts and Culture in 1980, deputy chairman of the council in 1981 and to the post of chairman in 1982. Alh. Bukar was later transferred to Nguru as district head on 25th January, 1982 and on 15th May, 1983, he was also transferred from Nguru to Fune-Damagum district. Until on 23rd November, 1983, he was briefly out of traditional service when he was politically retired by Asheik Jarma administration but the retirement was nullified by high court order on 20th September, 1985 and reinstalled into public service and his cadre was changed as an administration officer in the governor's officer of Borno state. He was posted to Borno state water boad as a principal secretary. He serve in various capacities as different parastatals and ministries between 1985 and 1996. HRH Alh. Bukar Ibn Ali El-kanemi was appointed as 1st class and 1st Emir of Ngazargumo by the then Head of state and commander-in-chief of the Nigerian Armed Force Late General Sani Abatcha on the 3rd April, 1996, while he was traditionally turbaned on 24th April, 1996 in Damaturu, Yobe State capital. Later was formally installed and presented with a staff of office by the then military administrator of Yobe State, late compol Dabo Aliyu on 6th of July 1996. The formal installation ceremony is the 1st of its kind to be held in Damaturu, it was one of the colorful and most historic event not only in the history of Yobe State, but the entire nation. He was the Emir of Ngazargumo until the then Executive Governor of Yobe State under the leadership of Governor Bukar Abba, where he split his Emirate by creating a new Emirs, where He Alh. Bukar Ibn Ali El-kanemi become the new and 1st Emir of Damaturu on 6th January, 2000.

He passed away in the early hours of Monday morning, 3rd November, 2003 which is 9th Ramadan, 1424  during his sleep in Makka Saudi Arabia where he went to perform the lesser Hajja (Umrah). Leaves behind wife's and many children. May his gentle soul continue to rest in Jannatul Firdaus...