Kano Gov. Flags Off Distribution of Second Batch of Palliatives 

Kano State Governor, Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf, has announced that his administration has concluded arrangements to begin the second phase of the distribution of fuel subsidy palliatives.

The governor revealed this, Saturday, at a meeting he held with the state and local governments chairmen/secretaries of four grassroots mobilisation platforms at the Coronation Hall, Government House, Kano. The platforms include: Community Re-Orientation Committee (CRC), Lafiya Jari, Kano PRO-PA and Kwankwasiyya.

According to the governor, the second phase would include the distribution of cash and grains (rice and maize) to youth, women and people living with disabilities drawn from across the 484 wards within the 44 of the 44 local government areas of the state.

According to a press release by his Chief Press Secretary, Mallam Sanusi Bature Dawakin Tofa,

Governor Kabir Yusuf said that the second batch of palliatives became expedient in view of the difficulties people were still going through in their daily living.

He urged the distribution committees at the state and local levels to be just and honest in the exercise aimed at subduing the current hardship typified by extreme hunger and abject poverty.

The Governor also revealed that plans were in the pipeline for empowerment programmes targeted at three categories of beneficiaries, totaling 4,840 women, youth and people living with disabilities, who will be trained and provided with start-up capital.

“We will also ensure the introduction of Amana taxis and buses scheme for our teaming youth,” the governor said. “We will also include some Tricycles riders (Yan Adaidata Sahu) in this scheme to upgrade their status.”

He also disclosed that the five road projects in the headquarters of 44 local governments initiated by Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso during his second tenure as Governor, would be completed as contractors had been mobilised back to the relevant sites to complete their work as planned.

Not only that, the governor also announced his government’s plan to organise an appeal fund for the security agencies operating in the state to boost their efficiency. This, he explained, would targeted towards providing  the agencies with the needed operational vehicles, working gadgets and other interventions that would help them lift their performance to acceptable standards.

Governor Abba Kabir used the opportunity to unveil other development initiatives especially in the areas of education, health, agriculture, expansion of streets in Kano municipality, construction of fly-overs and underpasses to ease vehicular movements, de-silting of dams, as well as renovation of hospitals and schools in the 44 local governments of Kano.

He appreciated the level of support and cooperation accorded his government so far by the people of Kano, urging them to sustain the tempo for the continuous peace, stability and prosperity of the state.