By Usman D Garba
Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State said contractors handling five kilometres road projects in all the headquarters of the 44 local government areas of the state have been mobilised back to sites.
Sen. Rabi’u Kwankwaso’s administration was responsible for starting the project.
This is contained in a statement issued by his press secretary, Bature Dawakin-Tofa, in Kano over the weekend.
Yusuf made this known at a meeting with the 44 local government council chairmen and secretaries of four grassroots mobilisation platforms in Kano on Saturday.
The groups are the Community Re-Orientation Committee (CRC), Lafiya Jari, Kano PRO-PA, and Kwankwasiyya.
He explained that the road projects would further enhance socioeconomic activities in the local government headquarters.
He said that the present administration would continue to accord priority attention in the areas of education, health, agriculture, and construction of fly-overs and underpasses to ease vehicular movements.
Others, he said, are the renovation of hospitals and schools in all 44 local government areas of the state.
Yusuf disclosed that already arrangements have been made to launch an appeal fund for security agencies operating in the state so as to provide them with the needed vehicles, communication gadgets, and other interventions to perform optimally.
The governor appreciated the level of support and cooperation accorded to his administration by the people of the state and solicited the sustenance of the tempo for the sustainable peace, stability, and prosperity of the state.
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