Governor Yusuf and leader of the market during his visit to Kantin Kwari texrile market on Thursday.jpg

By Maduabuchi Nmeribeh/Kano

Kano State Governor, Engr. Abba Kabir Yusuf has visited the Kano textile international market, otherwise known as Kantin Kwari marker which was recently gutted by mysterious fire.

He donated. N100 million to those who lost their goods and other valuables to the unfortunate inferno to enable them cushion the effects of the ugly incident.

The Governor said he made the donation on behalf of Kano State Government.

Governor Yusuf announced the donation when he led top government functionaries on a commiseration visit to the market on Thursday.

In a Press Statement by the Governor’s Spokesperson, Sanusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, Governor Yusuf extended the state government’s commiseration to the affected businessmen whose shops were destroyed by the fire incident.

The Governor said the donation was not a compensation to the loss incurred in the inferno, rather it was meant to mitigate the effects of the damages to the affected traders.

He assured the market leaderahip of the State Government’s to ensure they do their business in improved conducive environment.

He further promised that the state government will continue to enaure ease of doing business in the market.

Governor Yusuf also promised that Kano state government will install solar lights; rehabilite roads and build good road network; construct drainages and provide motorized boreholes, among others.

He implored management of the market to initiate programmes that will assist hundred of thousands of traders to conduct their daily businesses without hitches assuring that the State government would do all what it takes for Kano to maintain its status as the commercial nerve centre in Northern Nigeria and some West African countries.

In his remarks, the Managing Director of Kantin Kwari Market Management Board, Alhaji Hamisu Sa’ad Dogon Nama said 29 shops were razed by the fire and appreciated the quick response of Operatives of the Fire Service and other kind-spirited who fought bravely to quell the spread of the fire to the neighboring buildings.

The chairman of the Market Elders Committee, Alhaji Sabu’u Bako thanked Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf for his concern to the plight of the affected traders and called on the governor’s help to solve some of the problems bedeviling smooth operations of the market.