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In a recent interview, which featured Senator Tanko Al-Makura’s young daughter, Iman, she made a statement about her father, which profundity she might not have understood. Asked if her choice of career ever pitched her against her parents, given that as holder of a combined honours degree in Law and International Relations, University of Sussex, UK, she could have used her father’s influence to secure for herself a juicy job or live on her parent’s affluence like other children of the ruling class, Iman said: “My father is a very, very simple man. The same goes for my mother. And don’t forget that my father is a businessman…. His father, that is, my grandfather, was equally a renowned businessman.”