Kano State Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje
Kano State government has awarded N3,944,051,647.06 contracts for the construction of three roads in the state as part of the implementation of the 2016 budget, the state Commissioner of Information, Alhaji Muhammad Garba has said. Speaking to newsmen yesterday, Garba said the three roads included Janguza-Durum-Kabo-Karaye, 38 klm Burumburum- Kibiya-Rano and Tiga-Rurum-Rano.
Garba said the roads which were contained in the 2016 budget would cost N402,784,602.21, N2,189,503,588.11 and N1,351,763,456.74 respectively. He pointed out that the Janguza-Durum-Kabo-Karaye road was awarded since 2007 during the tenure of Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau but could not be completed even during the tenure of the immediate past governor of the state Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso. He said present government saw the importance of the road as it cut across six local government areas of Tofa, Rimin-Gado, Kabo, Karaye, Roggo and Kiru, hence, decided to complete it this year. The commissioner assured people of Kano that government would fully implement the 2016 budget, saying “government is determined to achieve 85-90 per cent of implementation of the budget if not 100 per cent.” He therefore urged people of the state to support government in that respect by paying their taxes as at when due, noting that the era of dependence on the federal government monthly allocation was over. Garba lamented that some states were currently receiving 35-40 per cent of what they used to receive from the federal government as monthly allocation which cannot sustain most of them. “Going by the present economic crisis, Kano state government has employed the services of nine private revenue generation firms to assist it in improving its IGR so that to achieve successful implementation of the 2016 budget,” he said.
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