By Usman Usman Garba
Kano State Governor, Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf, has disclosed that his administration’s allocation of plots of land to citizens is aimed at reducing the housing deficit, creating wealth for families, and laying a solid foundation for a better future.
This was contained in a statement issued by the Governor’s Chief Press Secretary Mustapha Muhammad, on Saturday.
The governor made the disclosure while distributing plot-of-land title documents to his Senior Special Assistants (SSAs), Senior Special Reporters (SSRs), Special Assistants (SAs), Special Reporters (SRs), and Personal Assistants (PAs), under the supervision of the Ministry of Land and Physical Planning, at Coronation Hall, Government House, Kano, on Saturday.
Governor Yusuf said receiving an allocation of a plot of land in a government layout was not an ordinary achievement.
The governor who was represented by Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Umar Farouk Ibrahim said, “this programme is not simply about the allocation of plots of land; it is about reducing the housing deficit, empowering our people through property ownership, creating wealth for families, and providing young people, women, and vulnerable groups with a solid foundation upon which they can build a better future.”
He added that the present administration believes leadership is not measured by the promises it makes, but by the promises it keeps, stressing that the administration was fulfilling a promise it made to the beneficiaries.
Governor Yusuf commended the beneficiaries for supporting his administration from the campaign period to the present, and appealed to them to consider themselves ambassadors of his administration by continuing to enlighten the public about the programmes and projects being undertaken by the Abba Gida-Gida administration.
In his remarks, the Commissioner for Land and Physical Planning, Alhaji Abduljabar Umar, said the number of plots allocated by the Governor Yusuf administration surpassed those allocated by the previous administrations of former Governors Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and Abdullahi Umar Ganduje.
He urged the beneficiaries not to sell the allocated plots but to keep them for future use.
Some of the beneficiaries who spoke, including SSA Hassan Sani Tukur SSR Amir Abdullahi Kima, SA Jamilu Aliyu Drone, and Kano APC Youth Leader, Salisu Yahaya Hotoro, expressed gratitude to Governor Yusuf and promised to work assiduously to ensure his re-election in the 2027 general elections.