Kano State Governor Abba Yusuf has announced the donation of N100m to the victims of a fire that recently engulfed some shops in the popular Kantin Kwari Textile market.
The Governor announced the donation when he led top government functionaries on a commiseration visit to the market today.
In a statement by his spokesperson, Sanusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, the Governor was said to have extended government’s commiseration to the affected businessmen whose shops were destroyed by the fire incident.
The Governor said the donation was not compensation for the loss incurred in the inferno; rather, it was meant to mitigate the effects of the damages on the affected traders.
Yusuf assured the Kano State Government of its intervention in improving the conducive atmosphere and ease of doing business in the market through installing solar lights, rehabilitating the road network, building drainages, and providing motorized boreholes, among other measures.
He implored market management to initiate programmes that will assist 100,000 traders in conducting their daily businesses without hitches, assuring that the government would do all it takes for Kano to maintain its status as the commercial nerve centre in Northern Nigeria and some West African countries.
Earlier, the Managing Director of Kantin Kwari Market Management Board, Alhaji Hamisu Dogon Nama, said 29 shops were razed by the fire and appreciated the quick response of fire service operatives and other kind-spirited people who fought bravely to quell the spread of the fire to the neighbouring buildings.
The chairman of the Market Elders Committee, Alhaji Sabu’u Bako, thanked Governor Yusuf for his concern for the plight of the affected traders and called on the governor to help solve some of the problems bedevilling the smooth operation of the market.
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