Late Retired CSP H. Bulama
Sam Kaye
Dear comrade, normally I should not mourn you because you were a lover of humanity who lived everyday as it comes. While you served as a police officer, you understood the transient nature of life and lived everyday as it comes. As Gm of the Borno transport management agency, you did your best. You served with diligence in and out of the uniform and gave a good account of yourself.
To some of us, you were a very sharp witty and intelligent man. A loyal friend of the media. I have carried leftist views as a comrade all my professional life but have not been desperate to always keep the title especially during the fall of the Communist era so I am not bookmarked as one by our friends who carry notebooks and guns. Comrade as I call you each time we meet just saw me one day and you said “Comrade”. I was so surprised. I gave you a big smile and was wondering who told you I had activism views and was not ashamed of it. I started to place you on the front burner of my list of real Comrades. Obviously I knew you on the field so I stepped up my warmness towards you because your greetings became warmer and your hand shake energetic.
You saw me another time and shouted comrade again. I then asked politely how you knew about my writings you always teased me about and you told me and I hugged you. You then said “keep it up Comrade I have been reading you and I am aware of your enormous contribution to my state.” And that was all I needed to continue serving humanity stepping on toes or not. I was so excited because I have heard this kind of accolades from many police officers including retired AIG’s Abdu Umar, Amakulum and Babalola whom I have worked with in the last three decades. Amakulum and Babalola as CP’s of Nasarawa state and Abdu Umar as CP Borno before all of them because AIG’s. I never knew there were some who watched from a distance too and kept records. Its a lesson in the realm of dedication for younger colleagues.
Officer Huseini was a jolly good fellow. One of those the media will always call our friend. He had a natural love for the gentlemen of the media and always showed it unpretentiously. He was amiable and a good ambassador of the institution that moulded him. If all our comrades in arms can have more of his ilks the profession would be moved from where it is now to where it should be in the future.
Enjoy your eternal sleep Comrade Bulama Hussein. Lover of Humanity. May your entire family be consoled by your passage to eternity. Amen