Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano state has assured government readiness to compensate owners of properties affected by the muli-billion naira Overpass project under construction at Tal’udu area of the metropolitis.

In the alternative, Governor Yusuf also disclosed plans to allocate new layout to the residents who are affected by the construction free of cost and out the compensation money that would be given to them.

Governor Yusuf gave the assurance during a meeting with stakeholders and leadership of Tal’udu communities at the Government house in Kano.

A statement by Spokesperson of the Governor, Sanusi Bature Dawakin-Tofa, said Governor Yusuf had invited the stakeholder for a dialogue over their claims and development interest of the state.
” All of you would be reasonably compensated in cash through your designated bank accounts, we will also agree with you on the time frame for you to move out of the project site and ww would also give plots free of charge as many of you may want to build another houses”

According to the statement, Governor Yusuf explained his administration’s Urban renewal drive to meet global standard of a mega city. He stressed
plan to set an infrastructure performance bar at high level to meet the status of most populous city in Nigeria.

The Governor recalled the multi-layer critical infrastructural project at Tal’udu along side the Underpass Bridge at Kofar Dan’Agundi, both in Municipal and Gwale local government areas were flag off in 2024 to enhance free flow of vehicular movements.

Besides, the Governor posited that capital project costing about N30 billion were intended to achieve multiple purposes of urban beautification, decongestion of traffic and urban renewal.

Earlier, Chairman of the Community Association, Alhaji Abba Aminu Imam expressed delight over government acceleration of development as spread across the state.

The leader of the community however appealed to government to facilitate the settlement plan of members of the community whose properties were affected by the ongoing construction.

Meanwhile, Government has constituted an adhoc committee to revisit the ongoing settlement and compensation plan for the Tal’udu community.

The APC Christian Forum has call on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to intervene over their neglect by some leaders of the All Progressives Congress in the state.

The Forum made the call in a statement signed by it Chairman Emmanuel Agbakoba and Secretary Benjamin Aman.

The statement added that those President Tinubu assigned with the responsibility of distributing palliatives in the state had neglected not only the Christian APC Forum but the Christian community in general.

The forum called on the National Chairman of the party Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, State Chairman Abdullahi Abbas to look into their concern over the neglect of not only the APC members but the Christian community in general.

“We voted for APC at all level, we did same in Kano but what worried us much is our neglect by some leaders on everything that comes which party faithful will benefit.

The recent is the Christmas Palliatives, the President had sent it to every Christian community across the 35 states without Kano.

The economy is not stable, we are facing the hardship but it is unfortunate that even during the palliative distribution, nobody is recognising the Christian Community and now it is Christmas but none of us has come across anything that will ease the hardship for us to celebrate Christmas.

We are calling on the President and the National Chairman of our party to intervene and give us the same recognition as every state of the federation.

The neglect is too much and we need an urgent action on the this matter”. The statement said

Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has paid a courtesy visit to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, as part of his New Year engagements.

This visit comes after Obi met with former military president General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida in Minna, Niger State, and former President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja.

Obi shared photos from the meeting on social media platform X on Friday, expressing his gratitude for the opportunity to discuss national issues with Obasanjo.

He wrote: “Yesterday, I travelled from Abuja to Lagos to visit a father figure, Leader, and Former President of Nigeria, His Excellency Olusegun Obasanjo, to wish him a happy new year and also deliberate on issues of national concern.”

Obi praised Obasanjo’s fatherly words of advice and kind guidance, noting that the former president remains one of the leaders under whom Nigeria saw tremendous growth.

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