THIS IS THE STORY OF MUHAMMAD IDRIS (tetengi4life@gmail.com)

It contains his life story including field videos, relevant pictures and documents of how he is helping (humanitarian assistance) to save several communities forgotten or torn by War in Nigeria including Internally Displaced Persons Camps (living in hunger and poverty), with his volunteer work for local and International NGOs and his work as a Co-founder and Director of Peace and Conflict for Platinum intervention


During most of his online applications, he was able to derive and summarize the questions into mainly 2, which are

1. How have you demonstrated leadership?

2.How have you helped to create positive change in your community and What are your plans to further increase your social impact in the future?


ANSWER TO THE QUESTIONS

How have you demonstrated in leadership?

ANSWER 1
Muhammad started from the position of Financial Secretary of SPAN (Students Physiological Association of Nigeria) Ahmadu Bello University Zaria in 2011 to 2012. Before that period, the association was disorganized, corrupt, students were complaining that the association is favoring a religion over others. When he came in, he blocked all the financial loopholes and united the students more than ever before. Because of that, he was elected as the President of the association in 2012. During that period, he organized public lectures and tutorials for the students to improve their academic performances. They organized health week in which several health activities took place like HIV test, BMI, Blood pressure level check, vision test, enlightenment on several diseases to the public. They didn't stop there, they took the challenge to the national where Muhammad led the students from North West Nigeria (Kaduna State) to a national conference at South- west Nigeria (Oyo State) across 100s of miles at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology in 2013, and they were the most disciplined, most coordinated among all the schools. This made them to win a national award and position which hitherto has never happened before. Because of that, he was awarded with the most honored SPAN award (the great son of SPAN).
At the same period, he organized a movement that led to the renovation of Block A7 of Suleiman Hostel in the school and they were given the best block among all the 16 blocks that contains about 2000 students. This made the school management to give him recognition and was included in the Electoral Committee (2013/2014) that conducted the election of the largest hostel in the school. Below is a video containing the evidences

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoy8BysqD1Q

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ANSWER 2.
After his graduation, he went for national youth service corps (NYSC) where he was the leader of corps members serving in college of nursing and midwifery Gombe and led voluntary projects like donation of sign post and renovation of the college entrance gate that immortalized their presence in the college up till today

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ANSWER 3.
MEDICAL AND HEALTH GROUP, GOMBE (As Financial Secretary)
During his National Youth service in Gombe state, he was also the financial secretary of medical and health Community development Service group where he generated internal revenue and external sponsorship that they used in carrying out some outstanding community services which hitherto has not happened of such magnitude before .
He led the group to complete the work (repair of prison roof) that he couldn't complete in his personal community development service which was like Win Win for all.
Also he initiated the idea of Malaria control project and sensitization at bolari-west community of Gombe, where he brought the attention of donor agencies that donated some remaining materials (shirts and pamphlets) the Agency used during the Role Back Malaria Project. They also fumigated the Bolari-West community of over 5,000 people. The King and the people of the community was very delighted fixed a courtesy visit
for the documentary on this visit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9HYPg1dLVE

QUESTION 2:
How have you helped to create positive change in your community and What are your plans to further increase your social impact in the future?

ANSWER 1:

BRING BACK OUR GIRLS CAMPAIGN GROUP (FROM AUGUST, 2015)
After finishing his National Service, he joined the BringBackOurGirls (#BBOG) campaign group advocating for the release of the abducted Chibok school girls. He has occasionally attend some of the daily seat-outs and have participated in several #BBOG peaceful protests/demonstrations and was among the members that took the parents of the girls to the Presidential Villa to meet with the President Muhammadu Buhari in January 14, 2016.
These protests and demonstrations have been part of the efforts that drew the attention of the local and international governments and Organizations that led to the negotiation and possible release of some abducted girls.
In contributing his on quoter to the group, he tried his possible best to bridge the communication gap between the civilian JTFs in the Borno War zone and the Group so as to be getting factual information on what was going on the search and rescue of the girls and the fight against terrorism.
One of the article he wrote on one of their #BBOG meetings
https://www.nairaland.com/3292698/brawl-btw-bringbackourgirls-sen-ali

QUESTION 2.
How have you helped to create positive change in your community and What are your plans to further increase your social impact in the future? Continue...?

ANSWER 2
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICE AT GOMBE PRISON YARD
During his National Service, Muhammad also carried out a VOLUNTARY personal community service in Gombe State Prison yard for 948 inmates. He made a commitment to provide drugs, medical equipment and renovation of the overpopulated prison yard. At that period, the activity of the Boko Haram terrorist was at its climax in the State, making mobility very difficult and risky. However, with courage and tenacity in search for support, he traveled to a dangerous territory (Ashaka cement factory in Gombe) where boko haram once hoisted their flag. Ashaka cement factory was attacked by boko haram in November 2014 in search of dynamite, 3 months later; Muhammad went to them for sponsorship. His valor and persuasion made the company to sponsor his project for these inmates.
While transporting the relief materials through the trenches, he was almost lynched as the supplies were mistaken for a bomb. But he succeeded and took the aid to save the lives of those inmates and renovated the prison yard. The Governor awarded him as the best corps member out of thousands posted to the state amid insecurity.
After his service, with the experience gathered, he created an online platform (https://www.nairaland.com/3180268/nysc-personal-cds-procedures-made) where he mentors thousands of NYSC youths on community services across Nigeria. He is currently touching lives of about 20,000 people, with the projects that are currently carried out by dozens of the corps member under his supervision. And if you wish to see some of their projects,kindly visit https://www.nairaland.com/3937233/successes-impact-online-community-development
the video documentary of the works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXr8IOpA6T0

more pics from the community development service at Gombe prison yard for the 948 inmates

QUESTION 2.
How have you helped to create positive change in your community and What are your plans to further increase your social impact in the future? Continues...?

ANSWER 3
PLATINUM INTERVENTION
Muhammad Idris is a Co-Founder and Director of Peace and conflict of a youth led Non Governmental Organization (NGO) called PLATINUM INTERVENTION CARE INITIATIVE CAC NO. 98960
www.facebook.com/platinumintervention

www.twitter.com/platinumngo

Platinum Intervention focuses on 4 key areas
1. Peace and Conflict
2. Almajiri
3. Internally Displaced Person's Affairs
4. Illegal Migration and Trafficking

ON OUR ALMAJIRI PROJECT

This is a short documentary on our Almajiri projects across North to put you up to speed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UAOavU0POg&t=1s

Background/Introduction
The Almajiri (Islamic scholarship migrant culture) is an increasingly pressing concern in Northern Nigeria. There are an estimated 9-10 million Almajiris in the 19 northern states at any given time. The practice involves sending children to other States and nations for Islamic studies. Most of the children do not receive a formal education.

Many children are sent from an age of 6 years. Many children are sent out to beg for alms during the day when there are no classes.
Almajiri children live in some of the shabbiest conditions imaginable. There are next to no jobs or opportunities for Almajiri adults in the increasingly challenging and competitive north. The above makes Almajiris prime targets for radicalization. Addressing Almajirinchi is an essential element of insecurity crisis in Nigeria. It is also a human rights issue affecting the rights of children.

Borno, epicentre of Boko Haram has 1 million Almajiris; many of Borno’s Almajiris are from neighboring nations, thus presenting a regional crisis.
This is one of the video we took at Keffi City that show a clear description of how the children go street to street to beg for alms in shabby condition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrihyDwAftc
BELOW IS ONE OF OUR ALMAJIRI PROJECT IN KEFFI CITY OF NASARAWA STATE
KEFFI NASARAWA ALMAJIRI PROJECT (Saturday 12th August, 2017)

Almajiri Schools Located at Agwan Waje
platinum interveners Muhammad idris (Peace and Conflict Director), Abubakar saleh said (Director, internally displaced persons) introducing themselves at the border of Keffi city of Nasarawa state before engaging in the project to curb the almajiri cultural flaws by coolecting their data to take take them away from the streets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFn2lHpairg

Meet Mallam Bako (an Almajiri teacher) as they interviewed him at his Almajiri school at Waje area of keffi. He has 55 almajiri children under his care. but their number have outgrown his pocket as such some of them had to go the street to beg to cater for themselves. He also narrated a story of an almajiri child that is now cripple as he was hit by a car while he was begging on the street. According to him,there are about 100 almajiri schools in keffi alone. He also stated that the almajiri system has changed compare to when they were kids, that they were more moral, obedient and do not beg in the street unlike the present age Almajiris.
This is one of the short interview video we took and translated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoLLfNcqIOs

when they went to the keffi market to get them food and foot wears to make them comfortable in giving us the data we needed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djy3bRP2f4Y


Interview with some of the kids. Some told them they want to become a soldier, some said a doctor while one of them said he want to become a VIGILANTEE (dan banga) and they all laughed out loud. it was fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK0446K4K08&spfreload=10

Kindly Visit https://www.nairaland.com/3934035/almajiri-projects-possible-break-through for the full story, findings and challenges on our Almajiri project and campaigns
NEXT STATES TO VISIT
They hope to expand to other Northern states like, Jos in Plateau, lokoja in Kogi, Maiduguri in Borno etc

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ANSWER 4
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL (April 2016 – Till date)

There wouldn't be a decent, free and just society if the rights of the citizens are trembled upon. In this light, Muhammad Idris decided Volunteer for an international human right NGO Amnesty International.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL (April 2016 – Till date)
Amnesty International (AI) is an international human right organization that focuses on Death Penalty, Torture, Force Eviction, Peace and Conflict, and he participated as follows;
1. END DEATH PENALTY CAMPAIGN: He was part of the team that carried out campaign at the Indonesian Embassy Nigeria, when some Nigerians in Indonesia were about to be executed for an alleged drug trafficking in 2016.
https://www.nairaland.com/3254322/amnesty-internationl-protesting-front-indonesian
2. STOP TORTURE CAMPAIGN: He participated in the campaign against the torture by Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) where they carried out investigations on the tortures and murders by SARS Police Nationwide with SARS Okwuzu Anambra as case study.
Muhammad Idris wrote an article that contained live confession of the victims and expose the perpetrators and it yielded result as the perpetrators were later suspended and transferred out. In addition to that, The Inspector General of Police Ibrahim Kpotum ordered immediate reformation of SARS.
https://www.nairaland.com/3369710/amnesty-international-victims-sars-torture

Amnesty Stop Torture drama (Saturday 21st of October, 2017): He Participated in the Amnesty International drama educating the people of mpape community on the effect of torture done by state actors as a way to extract information or for the victim to accept an inflated bail price and the reason for them to speak out and report to Amnesty International or appropriate authority whenever they see such.
For the drama videos kindly watch this
REHEARSAL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4FqeWmf050

THE REAL DRAMA ON THE D-DAY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KIctFzD5CE
3. FORCE EVICTION:
I. Mpape Community: Mpape is a community of about 1.2 million people located in Abuja. The community was asked to move and were served quit notice of demolition without proper notice or even providing an alternative place of living for them. Amnesty international and its activists including Muhammad, went round the community and mobilize the people including the market women and took the mater to court and eventually in February, 2017, the federal high court in Abuja blocked the demolition case. That was how families, lives and properties where saved.
II. Serra Leone: As an activist, he was part of the members tasked with distributing and signing of post cards against the Serra Leon law denying pregnant girls’ right to education (#ShamedAndBlamed). The signed post cards were gathered and posted to the Serra Leon relevant Government Authorities responsible for such laws.


He was part of the Amnesty International human right team that led the WRITE FOR RIGHT Annual AI culture where letters are sent across the world to locations/address where the rights of people are marginalized or abused.
In addition, he was part of the team that went to NYSC (National Youth Service Corps) Camps in Abuja (Kubwa) and Nasarawa (Keffi) to educate the young Nigerian graduates on human rights

Below is a Documentary on Efforts of Amnesty International Supporters in promoting human rights in Nigeria written by Muhammad Idris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdpq538GQqg

More photos from Amnesty International activism.
It was through Bring Back Our Girls that Muhammad first met AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL (AI) when they came for a solidarity visit to #BBOG meeting. Since then, he became a stakeholder among their Activist/Supporters in Nigeria. You can see in one of the pictures below, he was wearing AI shirt on his white long sleeve T-Shirt, it was because he was been given the shirt at the spot after declaring his intention and how he has been searching to volunteer for them courtesy of their good works he saw on Aljazeera, CNN and BBC

QUESTION 2.How have you helped to create positive change in your community and What are your plans to further increase your social impact in the future? Continuation

ANSWER 5
PRO-HEALTH INTERNATIONAL (OCTOBER 15TH to DECEMBER 2016)
His passion in humanitarian aid and assistance to reduce hunger and poverty in Nigeria has made Muhammad to volunteer for ProHealth International across several states in Nigeria.
I. Durumi IDP Camp: They took food and drugs worth a million Naira for the internally displaced person’s camp.

II. Kutara Community Nasarawa: They delivered food items and clothes donated by philanthropists to an IDP camp in masaka, Nasarawa state. Where the community had to sing and everyone danced round the food due to joy (see video below).

III. Orozo Medical Outreach: He volunteered for visual acuity and translation at Gidan mangoro primary health care, Orozo, Abuja.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzZGrs-E9Jc

QUESTION 2.How have you helped to create positive change in your community and What are your plans to further increase your social impact in the future? Continuation

ANSWER 6
BASIC RIGHTS WATCH (February 2017 till Present) volunteering some of my free weekends

KUCHIDNA COMMUNITY PROJECT
Recently, Muhammad helped a rural community of over 3000 people (Kuchidna in Nasarawa state) find a clean source of drinking water as opposed to the dirty pond they were dependent on. When he discovered the community, he led basicrights.org team to map the community and which got the attention of Livebridge foundation to sponsor some projects like:
-Drilling of clean water borehole (Mechanical water pump for sustainability)
-Skill acquisition on the use of bio-bricks (the use of cow dung to mold blocks)
-Health Check for the women and children
-Donation of food items

For detailed story of kuchidna community, kindly visit
https://www.nairaland.com/3942453/story-kuchidna

The work was published on one of the National dailies (Leadership Newspaper) on Saturday, August 12, 2017

QUESTION 2.How have you helped to create positive change in your community and What are your plans to further increase your social impact in the future? Continuation

ANSWER 7
LIVE BRIDGE FOUNDATION (May 2017 – Till present) during weekends alone

NEW KUCHINGORO IDP CAMP VISIT:
He was part of the team that took food, drugs and conducted a medical outreach at the camp for the women and children in partnership with Adaoha Foundation at new Kuchingoro IDP camp in Abuja.

KIYI VINE HERITAGE HOME KUJE:
He was part of the team that went to a community in Kuje Abuja, where twins and triplets are killed because they are believed to be evil. They took food and medical outreach there and even took some of the children for surgery.
After the event, he wrote an article about it and it made front page on nairaland.com where it garnered attention and got up to 28,000 views in one day. This publicity drew the attention of the world including philanthropists.
https://www.nairaland.com/3814456/kiyi-community-fct-still-kills

QUESTION 2.How have you helped to create positive change in your community and What are your plans to further increase your social impact in the future? Continuation

ANSWER 7
MY SHORT MEMOIR "When Nigeria Was One" That United some Nigerians

Muhammad was once a refugee due to Onitsha February 2006 religious crises but he turned it into success story by writing his memoir named “when Nigeria was one” that went viral and was read on political platform radio program on 15th of June, 2017 across millions of Nigerians, at this critical time of secession.

Visit For the full story https://www.nairaland.com/3860873/story-northerner-born-bred-onitsha

QUESTION 2.How have you helped to create positive change in your community and What are your plans to further increase your social impact in the future? Continuation

ANSWER 8
HUMANITARIAN AID AND ASSITANCE
Instead of complaining, overtime i have volunteered for several organizations to deliver foods, drugs, medical and health care to the impoverished Nigerians especially the Internally Displaced and those living in the rural communities in his quest for humanitarian aids and assistance to reduce poverty an hunger in Nigeria (UN Sustainable Development Goals 1&2).
The entire story including reports of his personal and most times emotional experience ia in
https://www.nairaland.com/3418734/profile-humanitarian-aids-assistance-reduce
A short documentary on some of my humanitarian aid and assistance to eradicate hunger and poverty in Nigeria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKNWZ1H2k9Y

Picture 1,2,3 and 4:
Was when we organized secondary school quiz competition. To empower the younger one and to extend our influence into the neighboring communities

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WOW!!! Big Ups to you. Am inspired and have learnt a lot from this. Am an aspiring personal development coach and motivational speaker who wants to make positive impact in my community and Nigeria at large. Peradventure, you seek assistance or volunteer, please inform me. I wish you all the best.

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WOW!!! Big Ups to you. Am inspired and have learnt a lot from this. Am an aspiring personal development coach and motivational speaker who wants to make positive impact in my community and Nigeria at large. Peradventure, you seek assistance or volunteer, please inform me. I wish you all the best.

Thanks at your encouraging response. Will get back to you when necessary. Perhaps u may send me your email or phone number

AmnestyInternational #Indonesian Killing
Tomorrow Indonesian government will execute (by firing squad) 14 people, 5 which are Nigerians.( 1. Nonso Kingsley Okonkwo 2. Humphrey Jefferson Ejika 3. Eugane Ape 4. Obinna Nwajagu and 5 Michael Titus Igweh).
The problem is not where they came from but the sanctity of life. We peaceful protested in the front of the Indonesian embassy today and we spoke to their diplomats but this evening, we realized that they will continue with the executions tomorrow. Some may say they deserve it, but what we are saying is that capital punishment for drugs is too harsh, they can use life sentence or any other deterring punishment other than capital punishment.

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I shall be looking forward to your philanthropic gestures/recommendation.
Thank you very much

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