Despite public outcry and backlashes on the ongoing demolition of alleged illegal properties in Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf yesterday vowed to sustain the exercise.
Although there is a subsisting court order to stay action on further demolitions, Yusuf insisted that more properties would be reclaimed.
The governor reiterated his resolve to continue the exercise while receiving the Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado Bayero, alongside the traditional district heads and other members of the emirate council who paid him Sallah homage at the Government House.
Besides, the governor categorically declared that he had no regrets over the exercise he described as the recovery of “public properties that were illegally acquired and distributed to sacred cows by the former Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje-led administration”.
The governor listed his administration’s achievements to include the payment of N1.5bn NECO fees for 55,000 secondary school students, restoration of street lights; and minimising the cases of phone snatching within the Kano metropolis.
Meanwhile, the Kano State Government is to constitute a committee, within the next few days to investigate how 10,000 workers, whose salaries have been blocked, were engaged by the immediate-past Abdullahi Umar Ganduje-led administration.
