The Secretary to Sokoto State Government, Muhammad Bello Sifawa, has lost his daughter, her three children and a house help to an early morning fire outbreak that ravaged their house in the early hours of Monday.
The fire outbreak, which occurred at about 3.00 am, claimed the lives of Rabi’atu Bello Sifawa, daughter to the Secretary to the State Government and her three children, Fatimatu Bello Yusuf, Maryam Bello Yusuf, Abubakar Sadik Bello Yusuf as well a house help, Aishatu Muhammad.
Meanwhile, funeral prayers for the deceased have been observed in Sifawa town, Bodinga Local Government.
The funeral was attended by the state Deputy Governor, Idris Muhammed Gobir, the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Rt. Hon.Tukur Bala Bodinga, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Muhammad Maigari Dingyadi, representatives of Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, and the State Chief Judge, Justice Saidu Sifawa.
Others were the Grand Khadi, Shuaibu Sodangi Achida, Chief of Staff, Government House, Sokoto, Aminu Haliru Dikko, members of the legislature, Commissioners and Special Advisers.
The rest were the State Commissioner of Police, DSS, Commandant Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, representatives of the Military and other security agencies, heads of government parastatals, Permanent Secretaries, local governments’ chairmen, serving and retired civil servants, politicians, and Ulamas, among others. They have since been buried according to Islamic rites.
