By Usman M. Aliyu
Kano State Deputy Governor Dr. Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna has said that the level of understanding and peaceful coexistence between the communities at the borders of Kano and Jigawa States are the attributes of the harmony experienced along the borders.
In a statement by the Chief Press Secretary, Comrade Hassan Musa Fagge said Gawuna was represented by the Kano State Attorney General and Commissioner Of Justice Barrister Musa Abdullahi Lawan, added that “95% consensus has been achieved on the boundary according to the joint field report, now only 5% remained as grey areas”.
The Deputy Governor who is also the Chairman Of the Kano State Boundary Committee made the statement, on Thursday during a meeting of Kano/Jigawa Interstate boundary committee meeting held at the Government House, Kano.
Gawuna in the statement said:-“The State Government is committed to ensure effective framework which will adequately address boundary issues, particularly towards resolving the grey sectors along Kano/Jigawa and Kano/Katsina Interstate boundaries with further plan for the physical demarcation of the agreeable sectors of the affected boundary”.
He extended the appreciation of the Kano State Government under the leadership of Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje to the National Boundary Commission for the achievements recorded towards ensuring efficient and coordinated boundary definition at both the National, State and Local Governments level.
In his remarks the Deputy Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Umar Namadi represented by the Commissioner Of land and regional planning Alhaji Sagir Musa Ahmad disclosed that the Kano/Jigawa Interstate boundary which has the distance of about 354 kilometres derived its origin from the old Kano State which shows that the two states are one and the same.
According to him the joint field team reported that the 5% grey areas are four in numbers at various locations along the boundary, with cumulative distance of 18.6 kilometres.
Said he: -“I am confident with the assistance of our traditional rulers this grey area will be resolved amicably and pave way for the demarcation of the boundary in its entirety”.
Earlier in his speech the Director General of the National Boundary Commission, Surveyor Adamu Adaji said the agency inaugurated the joint field team in 2009 which commenced field tracing and provisional demarcation of the boundary in 2010 from the tripartite point of Jigawa/Kano/Katsina in the north of which the outcome of the field exercise shows that there exist some grey areas along some sectors of the boundary.
He then commended Kano/Jigawa States for their unflinching support and cooperation towards the definition process of the Kano/Jigawa common interstate boundary.
The Joint meeting on Kano/Jigawa Interstate boundary was attended by Commissioners, members of the traditional institutions and State boundary committees.