Ibrahim Shuaibu
4 January 2009
Kano — Kano State Governor, Ibrahim Shekarau, has expressed delight with President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, for approving the take-off of the gas pipeline projects from Abuja to Kano, in this year's budget.
Shekarau said this would enable the state government to actualise its plan of having a 450 Megawatts power plant through the independent power project, embarked upon by the state government.
He said the state government had already signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with South-Korean firm, Posco Consortium, to build a 450 megawatts power plant based on public private partnership, assuring that study of the project had been taken and would be completed through international agreeable standard in 2011.
Shekarau said state government was trying to reposition its industrial plan, lamenting that power problems were the major setbacks to industrial plant in Kano and assured that government was worried by the situation and had already set up modalities to address the issue.
He said the state government had set N200 million aside for the support of entrepreneurship and communities across the state, adding that the programme was expected to be a veritable initiative for equitable, socio-economic development.
He said government had also set aside the sum of N322 million to the Ministry of Commerce, Industry, Cooperative and Tourism, to ensure entrepreneurship development, assuring that government was always ready to improve communities' micro-economic development.
According to him, the state government focused its attention towards repositioning industrial and commercial activities in the state, while emphasising that all steps toward actualising government efforts had been set-aside, and called on the people to always appreciate government programmes and policies.
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