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Nigeria: New Kano Urban Renewal Programme to Gulp N7 Billion -Commissioner
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Daily Trust (Abuja)
23 June 2008
Posted to the web 23 June 2008
Hassan a Karofi
Alhaji Ibrahim Garba is the Commissioner, Project Monitoring in Malam Ibrahim Shekarau's government in this interview with Hassan A Karofi, he enumerates the ongoing efforts to turn Kano into a modern city by next year through massive infrastructural provisions.
Infrastructural development is one area your administration is said to be lagging behind in since its inception, why does your government choose to neglect this important aspect of development to something else?
At least you have been in Kano for a long time and you have seen the level of infrastructural development being carried out by many successive governments and you can also be able to compare the achievements recorded by each of the previous governments.
And I am sure what this administration has done in the areas of infrastructural development which has surpassed any other government in this state.
For example, we have spent so much money to enhance rural and urban infrastructures in the last five years more than any government has done in Kano state. Hospitals, roads, water projects and flood control, name them, we have changed the way things are done and people are witnesses to these achievements.
And let me tell you that no government in Kano state has built qualitative and quantitatively in terms of roads like this administration, and we are not saying this because we are in the government, no, our activities are open for everyone to see and cross check the facts we are giving.
We are challenging everyone who is interested in getting information about what we have done in these areas to come and request, he will be given all he needs to see for himself.
So, in terms of infrastructural development, all we can say is Allahamdu Lillahi, although this is not what we primarily promised our people when we came in, however, we have done that like no other persons have done in the state.
What we promised to do is human development and we have achieved so much in that area that today, the level of development in that direction is overwhelming with hundreds of thousands of youths and women recruited in various segment of the state.
This can be verified wherever one goes, people will testify to this and I am sure no one can dispute this fact.
But can this be substantiated, especially as the opposition in the state are arguing that unlike what you painted, your government has not achieved much in the area of infrastructural development?
Talking about the opposition which I am sure you are referring to the PDP, they should first settle and tell Nigerians how their government at the centre stole billions of naira which is now being exposed for everyone to see the kind of people they are before they begin to raise what they cannot substantiate.
If you think what the opposition is saying is anything to hold, let anyone check the massive infrastructural development we have carried out in the state.
In terms of road construction, can they dispute that we have not constructed so many urban roads like the Sabo Bakin Zuwo road which has been in a dilapidated condition for several years, Yola road, Koki, Kwan Hudu, which was a passage that made life for people in the area unbearable before we construct it.
Coca-Cola road is another urban road we have built, we have Wajila, Zage-Zango road and so many others that you can have this book(holding a booklet) where you can get all the urban roads we have constructed.
There are the intra state roads that were built which are now enabling our farmers to move their farm produce to various markets across the state and beyond. These roads include Takai-Falale road which was built at over N1bn, Kibiya road which cost over N750m as well as two brigdes in that area.
We also have Armatai and Garanya road, Dungurawa-Jalli road and the current eastern bye pass that is under construction.
In Sabon Gari area where the non indigenes are residing, no government since the establishment of this state, has ever thought of constructing roads in that area, but today, we have built the Igbo road, Burma road, France road, Sarkin Yaki road and so many others in that area alone and all these are there for everyone to see and verify.
So all these are urban roads and intra state roads that are intended to network the entire state so as to boost economic and socio-political activities in Kano and other neighbouring states.
With all these developments, can anyone argue that we have not done well in the area of infrastructural development?
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Apart from these roads, are there any other developments that you are giving to the people?
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