Please tell us about yourself, sir? My name is Ismail Muhammad Mera. I was born in this palace of Argungu on the 31st of January, 1961. As usual with life
On my return, I left my job with the ADP and took up a teaching appointment with my alma mater as a principal lecturer until when there was a vacancy for the post of the director of works which I applied for and attended the interview. I was given the job but I decided to continue to teach because the area I was teaching was very important and there were few people. After some time, I got tired of the academic life and decided to go back to work as a civil servant.
Two years later, early 1992 when General Sani Abacha took over, fortunately for me, Water Resources was a huge Ministry at that time, and I was made the commissioner for water resources in the State. I worked for 36 months as a commissioner before my father passed on. Nigeria was recently satisfied as polio-free, and globally, it was recognised that traditional rulers of northern Nigeria were key to that effect. And fortunately, I was the one appointed to lead the group by His Eminence, the Sultan of Sokoto, and I got to go all over the country and world in the process. I got to speak at several fora. I believe I am the first Nigerian traditional ruler to speak at the United Nations and that gave me the opportunity to attend several conferences on health.
The traditional council we have now is filled with bright minds, exposure and we do a lot of all things. Every piece of land is a responsibility of someone. And he knows how to manage it. Every single cow used to be counted here and people paid tax per head of cow they owned. So every cow you see in the bush, the owner is known by the traditional ruler in that area. Every nomad, when it was time for them to settle, the traditional rulers knew. He knew who moved from where to where. He knew how many they were, how many children, because they had register of them back in those days.
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