A Nigerian-based Researcher, Ibrahim Ado Kurawa, has said Kano State has 7.22 million poor people together with Jigawa State.
According to Kurawa, who made the statement in his verified Facebook page, stated that Kano State, which is the home of the Late Malam Aminu Kano’s NEPU, the base that provided the NPC with resources to form national government in the First Republic has lost its eminent status in a matter of a few decades.
He said, “Kano is the home of the first textile industry in Nigeria; but now, Kano has 7.22million poor people, along with Jigawa, with its 5.05million poor – they contribute 15% of Nigeria’s poor people with less than 3% contribution to the national economy.
“Kano is now number 9 in GDP from number 2 after. Its GDP is US$13.3, behind Lagos, Rivers, Delta, Oyo, Imo, Edo, Akwa-Ibom and Ogun States; yet the elite don’t care to even discuss the way out”, he further lamented.
According to Kurawa, the problem is that the elite in Kano have been compromised.
