Still on the Assassination of Sheikh Ja'afar

I read the stories linking Governor Shekarau and other top officials of Kano state government with the assasination of Sheikh Ja'afar and comments made by people in different foras. I don't know, but as a journalist, I feel the death of Sheikh Ja'afar is much more than what people are speculating. Ja'afar was killed by powerful and mighty in the land and with active collaboration of some people, that know the scholar personnally.
Ja'afar, unlike other Islamic preachers, was different, because he was more than a preacher,he was a guide, who made his disciples see reasons behind everything he preached. He made people scholars by bringing out different opinions of Ulemas on an issue and allow you to take decision.
He was somebody, that tried to make Muslims realised that their problems lie in them. They should solve their political and social problems with the application of the teachings of the Prophet of Islam and those that came after him. He was a threat not only to his contemporaries, but also to the powers that be. They were afraid, if allowed, Jaafar would have mobilised people to challenge the authorities, whom we know for the past thirty years or so hold the country to ransom.
Jafar was a member of Mumtada Al- Islami, a group branded by US intelligence as terrorist. It will be difficult to rule that out. He posed a threat to Shekarau and Obasanjo at that time, they can also not be ruled out. There are also religious groups within the Islamic circle that are not comfortable with his style of teaching. Then come the other likely suspect, his students. Those students who felt Jaafar was soft in the way he tackled the issue of Jihad and obedience to dagut or the government that is driven by man-made constitution.
Let us not allow politicians to just use us in order to score a point. They are good at that. They are in one way or the other responsible for his death. If they are not directly involved, they are indirectly, due to their actions or inactions. Nobody is safe in this country. It is either the assassin's bullet, armed robbers or the police. Which ever way is death.
Ja'afar has gone and one indisputable fact about his life is that, even his enemies come to accept that Mallam was an honest, dedicated, intelligent and God fearing individual who devoted all his life to serve his creator.
I think that is the most important issue. He is dead and nothing can change that. Although he was the first Islamic preacher to be assassinated, he was not the only one brutally killed in the most gruesome manner. The only difference I think was the fact that, the others were politicians. Harry Marshal, Bola Ige, Rimis wife and a host of others, that up to this date, no trace of the culprits.
I think what Ja'afar need from us is not speculation about his killers, but prayers. May Allah forgive his excesses and make Janna firdaus his abode. Ameen.