Shahararren masani mai kula da namun daji kuma masanin kimiyyar dabi'a a Afirka, Dokta Richard Leakey ya gano wata shaida da ta taimaka wajen tabbatar da wanzuwar bil'adama a Afirka.
Shugaban kasar Kenya Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta, ya sanar da rasuwar Dr. Richard Leakey jiya a birnin Nairobi, ya kuma ce fitaccen masanin burbushin halittu da kare hakkin dan Adam na kasar Kenya ya rasu.
Kenyatta ya ce cikin shekaru da dama. Dokta Richard Leakey ya yi hidima ga Kenya da banbance-banbance a wasu ayyuka na jama'a a tsakanin su a matsayin Darakta na gidajen tarihi na Kenya da kuma shugaban hukumar kula da namun daji ta Kenya.
"A yammacin yau na samu da bakin ciki da bakin ciki labarin rasuwar Dr. Richard Erskine Frere Leakey, tsohon shugaban ma'aikatan jama'a na Kenya," in ji shugaban Kenya a wata sanarwa da ya fitar a yammacin Lahadi.
Baya ga fitaccen aikin da ya yi a aikin gwamnati, Dr. Leakey yana shagulgulan bikin ne saboda rawar da ya taka a cikin al'ummar farar hula na Kenya inda ya kafa tare da samun nasarar gudanar da cibiyoyi da dama, daga cikinsu akwai kungiyar kare hakkin bil'adama ta WildlifeDirect.
“A madadin jama’ar Kenya, da iyalina da kuma a madadina, ina mika sakon ta’aziyya da jaje ga iyalai, abokai, da abokan aikin Dr. Richard Leakey a wannan mawuyacin lokaci na bakin ciki.
"Allah Madaukakin Sarki ya ba wa Dr. Richard Leakey hutawa na har abada," in ji Shugaba Kenyatta a cikin wata sanarwa.
Leakey, dan tsakiya na mashahuran masana burbushin halittu, Dokta Louis da Mary Leakey, sun jagoranci balaguro a cikin shekarun 1970 wadanda suka yi babban binciken burbushin halittu na farko a gabashin Afirka.
Shahararriyar binciken da ya samu ya zo ne a shekarar 1984 tare da gano wani kwarangwal na Homo erectus na ban mamaki, wanda ya kusa kammalawa yayin daya tono shi a shekarar 1984, wanda ake yi wa lakabi da Turkana Boy.
A shekara ta 1989, tsohon shugaban kasar Kenya, Daniel arap Moi, ya nada Leakey, ya jagoranci hukumar kula da namun daji ta Kenya (KWS), inda ya jagoranci wani gagarumin yakin neman kawar da farautar giwayen giwaye.
Richard Leakey, cikakke Richard Erskine Frere Leakey, an haife shi a ranar 19 ga Disamba, 1944, a Nairobi, Kenya.
Shi masanin kimiyar dan adam dan kasar Kenya ne, mai kiyayewa, kuma dan siyasa wanda ke da alhakin binciken burbushin halittu masu alaka da juyin halittar dan adam kuma wanda yayi kamfen a bainar jama'a don kula da muhalli a gabashin Afirka.
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