28th March, 2014
Retired Assistant Inspector General of Police, and a Bauchi State delegate to the ongoing national conference, Alhaji Mohammed Hamma Misau is dead.
The 67-year old retired AIG became popular across the country few days ago when a national newspaper published a photograph in which he was sleeping during proceedings at the National Conference.
His was one of the photographs of elderly delegates at the Conference who have been caught sleeping during proceedings of the National Conference.
Though information available about circumstances of his death was scanty as at the time of filing in this story, it was learnt that the retired Police officer died last night at the National Hospital, Abuja where he was admitted for treatment of undisclosed ailment. 
James Akpandem, Assistant Secretary, Media and Communications confirmed the death of the delegate to P.M. NEWS this morning.
The body of the deceased has taken to Misau, his home town in Bauchi State at the time of filing this report.
He would be buried according to Islamic rites shortly after prayer.
P.M. NEWS gathered that the retired AIG was a respected community leader in Misau Local Government Area and an opinion leader in Bauchi State who also took keen interest in national affairs.
He was one of those who fought against the third term plot of former President Olusegun Obasanjo and in an interview he granted in 2006, heaped praises on the Senate for throwing out the controversial constitutional amendment bill, which would have allowed the tenure of former President Obasanjo to be elongated: “I have always been confident that the amendment bill will not scale through. It has remained the most unpopular bill before the parliament since our independence.”
In another recent interview, the deceased advocated that government should should strive to get across to the Boko Haram sect leaders for genuine dialogue as a means of tackling the problem of insurgency confronting the country.
He urged security operatives involved in patrol duties to desist from unduly harassing the public, stressing that they should be rather civil in conducting their operations.
According to him, it is only through such civil dispositions that the security operatives can attract public confidence.
“If they treat the public in a civil manner, some of them will be willing to feed the security operatives with important intelligence data which can give a lead on how to reach the Boko Haram leaders for dialogue.
“Members of the sect are part of us; they live among us. Therefore, it is important to reach them and dialogue with them so as to know their grievances and address them.
“Besides, security chiefs should also avoid making inflammatory statements,” he says.
For a fruitful dialogue with the Boko Haram sect, he urged government to contact some respected personalities to act as mediators between it and the sect’s leadership.
“Non-partisan opinion leaders should be contacted to play the role of mediators,” he adds.
His son who is also a police officer, Isa Hamma was former ADC to former FCT Minister Dr. Aliyu Modibbo
Akpandem told this magazine that the Bauchi State government will work with the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation to nominate a replacement for the deceased delegate.