NAN-H-92
Land
Abdullahi Shugaba
Dutse, Feb. 1, 2017 (NAN) The Jigawa Government has inaugurated a five-man committee headed by the Deputy Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Hassan to ascertain its landed property in four states.
The Commissioner for Information, Youth Sports and Culture, Alhaji Bala Ibrahim made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN ) in Dutse on Wednesday.
Ibrahim said that the property were located in Kano, Kaduna, Lagos and Abuja.
He said that the committee included Secretary to the State Government, Alh Abdulkadir Fanini, Commissioners for Commerce, Alhaji Aminu Sidi, Land Housing and Urban Development, Alhaji Aminu Babura and Mr Hussaini Garingabas.
The commissioner said that the Executive Council approved the committee during its weekly meeting.
He said that the committee was charged with the responsibility of studying the report submitted to the council by a committee on verification of state owned landed property and come up with far reaching recommendations.
Bala said that the Executive Council has also noted with great appreciation the resolution of the Northern Governors’ Forum to create an economic structure and fund to enable states to establish financial institutions to cater for their interests.
“It is against this background that the council has approved the payment of N50million monthly beginning from January 2017 as part of the agreed minimum contribution by each of the 19 Northern states to an account to be created by the forum,” he said. (NAN)
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Edited by Maureen Atuonwu/Felix Ajide