March 29, 2024

Buhari to Visit Kano Today


President Muhammadu Buhari would embark on a two-day working visit to Kano, his “vote bank and secured political base” today to commission some projects that were executed by his administration in the north-western state.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu who gave this hint Weekend, said the President’s visit to Kano was a reassurance of the federal government’s commitment to transform the commercial city through its various developmental programmes.

Shehu who described Kano as the vote bank and secured political base of the President said the Buhari’s administration had in the last two and a half years put Kano State through a revolution that was bringing back its old glory as the industrial hub of northern Nigeria.

 “Kano, long one of the fastest growing economies in the country, had begun to lag in the years preceding Buhari due to problems occasioned mainly by the acute shortage of power. Neighbourhoods spent weeks without electricity; factories sent workers home and shut down because they had no money to sustain production using diesel generators.

“Now, things are getting better. The numerous projects put in place to enhance power generation and transmission in particular are being brought to fruition. Records indicate that Kano today enjoys a daily cumulative power supply of about 18 hours.

“To bring a permanent solution to the problem power epilepsy, the Buhari administration has been discussing the idea of a contract for the laying of gas pipelines from Ajaokuta through Abuja and Kaduna to Kano. This should meet the needs of manufacturing industries as it has been for the coastal areas including Lagos and Ogun states industrial zones.

The Media Aide listed the dualisation of Kano- Maiduguri Road Section IV (Postikum – Damaturu) with over 58% now completed; Dualisation of Kano – Katsina Road ( From Dawanau – Katsina) Kano – Western Bye Pass Rehabilitation of Saminaka – Doguwa Road; and Doguwa – Tiga Road as some of the President’s efforts to make transportation easy for the people.

Shehu said the state of Abuja-Kaduna-Kano dual-carriage way which had attracted so much public criticism was now receiving attention of the government.

He pre-empted that Buhari could in the course of the visit make a significant pronouncement on the future of this road.

In the aviation sector, Kano, according to Shehu, had a good deal, stressing that “presently, construction is ongoing of a new international terminal building at the Kano International Airport, as well as rehabilitation of car parks and service roads.”

He declared that Kano was one of the major beneficiaries of Buhari’s Social Investment Programs.

“Following successful awareness creation among the state’s large population of the unemployed and the downward revision of the entry requirements to accommodate NCE and Diploma certificates holders, Kano entered more than 80,000 applications for the current wave of N-Power recruits.

“On the Conditional Cash Transfers, Cash Transfer Facilitators have been giving orientation and training; State Cash Transfer Offices have already been set up in the state and enrollments have commenced from the 23rd of November. The payment of beneficiaries is expected to start this week, that is the first week of December.

“The Implementation of the Home Grown School Feeding Program is commencing soon. The month of December has been set as the target month,” he explained.

Shehu also commended Buhari for saving the city from the heinous onslaught of Boko Haram.

“When Kano gave Muhammadu Buhari about two million votes, the highest by any state that swept him into office in 2015, one issue had dominated election-time discourse, and still remained: Security.

“A few morons who did not any way represent Islam, a religion of peace had launched a series of horrendous gun and bomb attacks on the city as they did on a number northern towns and villages.

“Nowhere was safe in Kano. A place that was safe today, can be site of a deadly attack tomorrow. The police, the other security agencies and the general civilian bore the brunt of a large-scale insurgent offensive. The security situation was intensely volatile.

“Men and women leave home to fetch food for the children and later in the day, their dead bodies are brought back,” he said.

He went down memory lane to narrate how the PDP administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan handled Boko Haram with kid gloves and allowed the terror group to slaughter the people unchecked.

“The casualties mounted to dramatic levels. On a particular Friday in February 2012, Boko Haram launched a deadly attack on police and other security establishments leaving its trail, hundreds of deaths and thousands with various degrees of injury. In December 2014, suicide bombers and gunmen launched yet another deadly attack on the city Juma’at mosque killing 300, leaving hundreds of others injured.

“Kano residents, as did nearly everyone across the country had by 2015 lost confidence in the incompetent, corrupt Jonathan administration which they said was not doing enough to protect them against Boko Haram.

“Nigerian soldiers with centuries old reputation for courage, valor and accomplishment were starved of needed arms and ammunition. They recorded their first-ever failure to bring peace and stability.”

He averred that the millions of votes Buhari got from the people of Kano were due to the confidence they had in the president that he could crush Boko Haram and bring back peace to the commercial city.

“It is instructive to remind ourselves that the people didn’t just fold their arms doing nothing about their plight. Given that they had a government that failed to govern, in the circumstance, they did the most they could to overcome the life of fear and anxiety clamped upon them. They imposed security rules on themselves and listened to their own instincts.

“They erected high blast protection walls and barbed wire around homes, institutions and public places.

“After years of murderous campaign by the terrorists, what everyone wanted form Candidate Muhammadu Buhari was security first, security second, security third, then economy and jobs and the fight against corruption which only a man with his credentials of impeccable personal integrity could wage. Group after group of voters promised him that if only you show us a plan for ending the dislocation and disruption of our lives, we will give the kind of support that no others will give.

Shehu foresaw that with Buhari’s achievements in security and infrastructural development, as he visits Kano today, millions of people would turn up in appreciation to see and listen to the President with decorum.

“And given the high level of political consciousness in the state, expect our people to sport Buhari masks, T-Shirts, banners and buntings saying “we love Buhari.” Don’t even rule out a shouting match between splinter groups. It is a way to show true love for the President,” he added

 

 

 

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Buhari to Visit Kano Today


President Muhammadu Buhari would embark on a two-day working visit to Kano, his “vote bank and secured political base” today to commission some projects that were executed by his administration in the north-western state.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu who gave this hint Weekend, said the President’s visit to Kano was a reassurance of the federal government’s commitment to transform the commercial city through its various developmental programmes.

Shehu who described Kano as the vote bank and secured political base of the President said the Buhari’s administration had in the last two and a half years put Kano State through a revolution that was bringing back its old glory as the industrial hub of northern Nigeria.

 “Kano, long one of the fastest growing economies in the country, had begun to lag in the years preceding Buhari due to problems occasioned mainly by the acute shortage of power. Neighbourhoods spent weeks without electricity; factories sent workers home and shut down because they had no money to sustain production using diesel generators.

“Now, things are getting better. The numerous projects put in place to enhance power generation and transmission in particular are being brought to fruition. Records indicate that Kano today enjoys a daily cumulative power supply of about 18 hours.

“To bring a permanent solution to the problem power epilepsy, the Buhari administration has been discussing the idea of a contract for the laying of gas pipelines from Ajaokuta through Abuja and Kaduna to Kano. This should meet the needs of manufacturing industries as it has been for the coastal areas including Lagos and Ogun states industrial zones.

The Media Aide listed the dualisation of Kano- Maiduguri Road Section IV (Postikum – Damaturu) with over 58% now completed; Dualisation of Kano – Katsina Road ( From Dawanau – Katsina) Kano – Western Bye Pass Rehabilitation of Saminaka – Doguwa Road; and Doguwa – Tiga Road as some of the President’s efforts to make transportation easy for the people.

Shehu said the state of Abuja-Kaduna-Kano dual-carriage way which had attracted so much public criticism was now receiving attention of the government.

He pre-empted that Buhari could in the course of the visit make a significant pronouncement on the future of this road.

In the aviation sector, Kano, according to Shehu, had a good deal, stressing that “presently, construction is ongoing of a new international terminal building at the Kano International Airport, as well as rehabilitation of car parks and service roads.”

He declared that Kano was one of the major beneficiaries of Buhari’s Social Investment Programs.

“Following successful awareness creation among the state’s large population of the unemployed and the downward revision of the entry requirements to accommodate NCE and Diploma certificates holders, Kano entered more than 80,000 applications for the current wave of N-Power recruits.

“On the Conditional Cash Transfers, Cash Transfer Facilitators have been giving orientation and training; State Cash Transfer Offices have already been set up in the state and enrollments have commenced from the 23rd of November. The payment of beneficiaries is expected to start this week, that is the first week of December.

“The Implementation of the Home Grown School Feeding Program is commencing soon. The month of December has been set as the target month,” he explained.

Shehu also commended Buhari for saving the city from the heinous onslaught of Boko Haram.

“When Kano gave Muhammadu Buhari about two million votes, the highest by any state that swept him into office in 2015, one issue had dominated election-time discourse, and still remained: Security.

“A few morons who did not any way represent Islam, a religion of peace had launched a series of horrendous gun and bomb attacks on the city as they did on a number northern towns and villages.

“Nowhere was safe in Kano. A place that was safe today, can be site of a deadly attack tomorrow. The police, the other security agencies and the general civilian bore the brunt of a large-scale insurgent offensive. The security situation was intensely volatile.

“Men and women leave home to fetch food for the children and later in the day, their dead bodies are brought back,” he said.

He went down memory lane to narrate how the PDP administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan handled Boko Haram with kid gloves and allowed the terror group to slaughter the people unchecked.

“The casualties mounted to dramatic levels. On a particular Friday in February 2012, Boko Haram launched a deadly attack on police and other security establishments leaving its trail, hundreds of deaths and thousands with various degrees of injury. In December 2014, suicide bombers and gunmen launched yet another deadly attack on the city Juma’at mosque killing 300, leaving hundreds of others injured.

“Kano residents, as did nearly everyone across the country had by 2015 lost confidence in the incompetent, corrupt Jonathan administration which they said was not doing enough to protect them against Boko Haram.

“Nigerian soldiers with centuries old reputation for courage, valor and accomplishment were starved of needed arms and ammunition. They recorded their first-ever failure to bring peace and stability.”

He averred that the millions of votes Buhari got from the people of Kano were due to the confidence they had in the president that he could crush Boko Haram and bring back peace to the commercial city.

“It is instructive to remind ourselves that the people didn’t just fold their arms doing nothing about their plight. Given that they had a government that failed to govern, in the circumstance, they did the most they could to overcome the life of fear and anxiety clamped upon them. They imposed security rules on themselves and listened to their own instincts.

“They erected high blast protection walls and barbed wire around homes, institutions and public places.

“After years of murderous campaign by the terrorists, what everyone wanted form Candidate Muhammadu Buhari was security first, security second, security third, then economy and jobs and the fight against corruption which only a man with his credentials of impeccable personal integrity could wage. Group after group of voters promised him that if only you show us a plan for ending the dislocation and disruption of our lives, we will give the kind of support that no others will give.

Shehu foresaw that with Buhari’s achievements in security and infrastructural development, as he visits Kano today, millions of people would turn up in appreciation to see and listen to the President with decorum.

“And given the high level of political consciousness in the state, expect our people to sport Buhari masks, T-Shirts, banners and buntings saying “we love Buhari.” Don’t even rule out a shouting match between splinter groups. It is a way to show true love for the President,” he added

 

 

 

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Buhari to Visit Kano Today


President Muhammadu Buhari would embark on a two-day working visit to Kano, his “vote bank and secured political base” today to commission some projects that were executed by his administration in the north-western state.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu who gave this hint Weekend, said the President’s visit to Kano was a reassurance of the federal government’s commitment to transform the commercial city through its various developmental programmes.

Shehu who described Kano as the vote bank and secured political base of the President said the Buhari’s administration had in the last two and a half years put Kano State through a revolution that was bringing back its old glory as the industrial hub of northern Nigeria.

 “Kano, long one of the fastest growing economies in the country, had begun to lag in the years preceding Buhari due to problems occasioned mainly by the acute shortage of power. Neighbourhoods spent weeks without electricity; factories sent workers home and shut down because they had no money to sustain production using diesel generators.

“Now, things are getting better. The numerous projects put in place to enhance power generation and transmission in particular are being brought to fruition. Records indicate that Kano today enjoys a daily cumulative power supply of about 18 hours.

“To bring a permanent solution to the problem power epilepsy, the Buhari administration has been discussing the idea of a contract for the laying of gas pipelines from Ajaokuta through Abuja and Kaduna to Kano. This should meet the needs of manufacturing industries as it has been for the coastal areas including Lagos and Ogun states industrial zones.

The Media Aide listed the dualisation of Kano- Maiduguri Road Section IV (Postikum – Damaturu) with over 58% now completed; Dualisation of Kano – Katsina Road ( From Dawanau – Katsina) Kano – Western Bye Pass Rehabilitation of Saminaka – Doguwa Road; and Doguwa – Tiga Road as some of the President’s efforts to make transportation easy for the people.

Shehu said the state of Abuja-Kaduna-Kano dual-carriage way which had attracted so much public criticism was now receiving attention of the government.

He pre-empted that Buhari could in the course of the visit make a significant pronouncement on the future of this road.

In the aviation sector, Kano, according to Shehu, had a good deal, stressing that “presently, construction is ongoing of a new international terminal building at the Kano International Airport, as well as rehabilitation of car parks and service roads.”

He declared that Kano was one of the major beneficiaries of Buhari’s Social Investment Programs.

“Following successful awareness creation among the state’s large population of the unemployed and the downward revision of the entry requirements to accommodate NCE and Diploma certificates holders, Kano entered more than 80,000 applications for the current wave of N-Power recruits.

“On the Conditional Cash Transfers, Cash Transfer Facilitators have been giving orientation and training; State Cash Transfer Offices have already been set up in the state and enrollments have commenced from the 23rd of November. The payment of beneficiaries is expected to start this week, that is the first week of December.

“The Implementation of the Home Grown School Feeding Program is commencing soon. The month of December has been set as the target month,” he explained.

Shehu also commended Buhari for saving the city from the heinous onslaught of Boko Haram.

“When Kano gave Muhammadu Buhari about two million votes, the highest by any state that swept him into office in 2015, one issue had dominated election-time discourse, and still remained: Security.

“A few morons who did not any way represent Islam, a religion of peace had launched a series of horrendous gun and bomb attacks on the city as they did on a number northern towns and villages.

“Nowhere was safe in Kano. A place that was safe today, can be site of a deadly attack tomorrow. The police, the other security agencies and the general civilian bore the brunt of a large-scale insurgent offensive. The security situation was intensely volatile.

“Men and women leave home to fetch food for the children and later in the day, their dead bodies are brought back,” he said.

He went down memory lane to narrate how the PDP administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan handled Boko Haram with kid gloves and allowed the terror group to slaughter the people unchecked.

“The casualties mounted to dramatic levels. On a particular Friday in February 2012, Boko Haram launched a deadly attack on police and other security establishments leaving its trail, hundreds of deaths and thousands with various degrees of injury. In December 2014, suicide bombers and gunmen launched yet another deadly attack on the city Juma’at mosque killing 300, leaving hundreds of others injured.

“Kano residents, as did nearly everyone across the country had by 2015 lost confidence in the incompetent, corrupt Jonathan administration which they said was not doing enough to protect them against Boko Haram.

“Nigerian soldiers with centuries old reputation for courage, valor and accomplishment were starved of needed arms and ammunition. They recorded their first-ever failure to bring peace and stability.”

He averred that the millions of votes Buhari got from the people of Kano were due to the confidence they had in the president that he could crush Boko Haram and bring back peace to the commercial city.

“It is instructive to remind ourselves that the people didn’t just fold their arms doing nothing about their plight. Given that they had a government that failed to govern, in the circumstance, they did the most they could to overcome the life of fear and anxiety clamped upon them. They imposed security rules on themselves and listened to their own instincts.

“They erected high blast protection walls and barbed wire around homes, institutions and public places.

“After years of murderous campaign by the terrorists, what everyone wanted form Candidate Muhammadu Buhari was security first, security second, security third, then economy and jobs and the fight against corruption which only a man with his credentials of impeccable personal integrity could wage. Group after group of voters promised him that if only you show us a plan for ending the dislocation and disruption of our lives, we will give the kind of support that no others will give.

Shehu foresaw that with Buhari’s achievements in security and infrastructural development, as he visits Kano today, millions of people would turn up in appreciation to see and listen to the President with decorum.

“And given the high level of political consciousness in the state, expect our people to sport Buhari masks, T-Shirts, banners and buntings saying “we love Buhari.” Don’t even rule out a shouting match between splinter groups. It is a way to show true love for the President,” he added

 

 

 

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