 The group later expanded into the hotel business, with Bakin Zuwo as manager.In 1950, he co-founded the Kano Citizens Trading Company along with other Kano merchants, the cooperative was the first indigenous joint commercial enterprise formed in Kano and Gashash became secretary of the company.By the 1950s, Gashash had emerged as a financier of the Northern People's Congress and was later made minister for Land and Survey.