A nonprofit organization “One Kano Agenda” has described transferring some companies from Kano to the southern part of Nigeria (Lagos) and closure of others as undeniable facts threatening the economy of Kano state.
The group also said it would engage with all stakeholders to workout modalities on how to revive small and medium enterprises as well as ensuring that Kano state’s political landscape becomes emulating one in the country.
Comrade Abbas Abdullahi Yakasai, the director general of One Kano Agenda disclosed this while briefing journalists at the day-two of the Kano citizens conference organized by the group to discuss the political landscape and economy of the state held in Khalifa Isiyaka Rabi’u University (KHAIRUN), Kano on Thursday.
He said the conference’s discussion focused on review of the challenges rocking the state and way out of the economic, political and security crisis.
“We have organized these two-day citizens conferences so as to sharpen the thinking of our youth in Kano, and look forward to economic development and political progress of our dear state,” said Yakasai.
“If you look at the contributions of Kano state in the political and economic fourier of the nation especially in the northern region is very enormous and is not going as it is expected, so we want the status of Kano to come out so that anything that has to do with the economy of Kano state, the northern Nigeria or even the nation, Kano state be a leading player in term of it. Likewise when it comes to politics we want a situations that Kano to be setting the course as leading figure,” said ambassador Yakasai.
“Whether you are for APC, or for PDP, or NNPP or whatever, we shouldn’t be looking at the party affiliations, all we need to do is to put Kano first and focus on only Kano Agenda. By so doing we should come together and change the political policy of Kano state,” he added.
He commended the executive governor of Kano state Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf for his strategies on security affirming that with all the state governments’ commitments, bandits and terrorists have no safe heavens in any part of Kano state.
Yakasai assured that One Kano Agenda will soon reconvene a stakeholder engagement to discuss issues stalling progress in an effort to find lasting solutions.