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Amina Ibrahim perhaps will be the first woman to be captured by the media as a tricyclist in Kano.
She is a history-maker already and has broken tradition and culture of the Hausa tribe. As a tradition, a typical Hausa man prefers his wife to be a fulltime housewife, who is kept in the background and saved from close contact with strangers.
But in Amina Ibrahim’s case it is different. She is an outgoing breadwinner and does so with a sense of pride, contentment and excitement as she carries passengers around Kano metropolis just as a man would do and renders the service politely, respectfully and with some level of feminine gentility that men brush aside.
Amina told Arewa Voice that she does not care about what others would say about her as she believes no job is specifically meant for the male or the female. She said: “My name is Amina Ibrahim, 40 years old. I’m from Unguwar Deniji, Kano Municipal in Kano. I’m married with six children. I picked up the job of commercial tricycle operator just to support my husband in the home front. I feel there is no point sitting down at home and doing nothing. That is why I decided to undertake the trade and to give a helping hand to my husband, who is also into the same business with me.
“After the day’s job, my husband retires home to rest while I take over from there all in a bid to assist in raising enough money to keep our family. I started the job about a year ago. But long before now I had developed interest in the job right in the days of the Governor Shekarau’s administration when he shared tricycles to indigenes. No job is specifically meant for a particular gender. But my passengers are all female and school children.
That is wonderful.In an acient city like Kano that I know some Hausa will dislike her for that simple reason.