Leadership is often measured by the size of projects commissioned, the number of kilometres of roads constructed or the billions of naira announced in budgets. But there is another, more profound measure of leadership: how a government responds when its citizens suffer tragedy, particularly when the victims are the most vulnerable.
This is why the decision of Kaduna State Governor, Senator Uba Sani, to build and present houses to two families whose parents were brutally lynched by a mob deserves more than passing mention.
It is a gesture that transcends bricks and mortar. It is a powerful statement about the meaning of government, compassion and responsibility.
The families did not lose their parents to a natural disaster. They were victims of a breakdown of social order in which mob violence and the unlawful taking of human life deprived children of their parents. The trauma of such a tragedy cannot be
