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As a People's Redemption Party radical, to scrap the community tax (haraji) and cattle tax (jangali) that fell hardest on peasants and herders.

Rimi's government abolished both taxes early in the term, a signature PRP measure also taken in Kaduna. It was popular with the talakawa (commoners) and central to the party's identity, though it further strained state finances.

Free schooling and health care and a mass adult-literacy drive ('yaki da jahilci') across Kano State.

Fees were removed, schooling and adult-literacy classes expanded and health facilities added. Quantified, sourced outcome data for 1979–1983 is limited in the summary record.

To subordinate traditional authority to the elected government.

Rimi's formal queries to the Emir of Kano, Ado Bayero, in 1981 triggered riots in which his political adviser was killed, and he created several new emirates to dilute Kano's pre-eminence. The confrontation defined his term and left the emirate structure permanently changed, but at a high cost in unrest.