By Muntaka Bello, Kano
Kano State Deputy Governor Dr.Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna has said that the level of understanding and peaceful coexistence between the communities at the borders of Kano and Jigawa States are the attributes of the harmony experienced along the borders.
"95% consensus has been achieved on the boundary according to the joint field report,now only 5% remained as grey areas he said ".
Represented by the Kano State Attorney General and Commissioner Of Justice Barrister Musa Abdullahi Lawan, The Deputy Governor who is also the Chairman Of the Kano State Boundary Committee made the statement, thursday during a meeting of Kano/Jigawa Interstate boundary committee meeting held at the Government House, Kano.
In a statement made available to newsmen in Kano by the Chief Press Secretary to the Deputy Governor Malam Hassan Fagge, Gawuna explained that, "the state government is committed to ensure effective framework which will adequately address boundary issues, particularly towards resolving the grey sectors along Kano/Jigawa and Kano/Katsina Interstate boundaries with further plan for the physical demarcation of the agreeable sectors of the affected boundary".
The Deputy Governor extended the appreciation of the Kano State Government under the leadership of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje to the National Boundary Commission for the achievements recorded towards ensuring efficient and coordinated boundary definition at both the National, State and Local Governments level.
In his remarks according to the statement, the Deputy Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Umar Namadi represented by the Commissioner Of land and regional planning Sagir Musa disclosed that the Kano/Jigawa Interstate boundary which has the distance of about 354 kilometres derived its origin from the old Kano state which shows that the two states are one and the same.
According to him "the joint field team reported that the 5% grey areas are four in numbers at various locations along the boundary, with cumulative distance of 18.6 kilometres," the statement added.
"I am confident with the assistance of our traditional rulers this grey areas will be resolved amicably and pave way for the demarcation of the boundary in its entirety," he stated.
Earlier in his speech the Director General Of the National Boundary Commission, Surveyor Adamu Adaji said the agency inaugurated the joint field team in 2009 which commenced field tracing and provisional demarcation of the boundary in 2010 from the tripartite point of Jigawa/Kano/Katsina in the north of which the outcome of the field exercise shows that there exist some grey areas along some sectors of the boundary.
He then commended Kano/Jigawa States for their unflinching support and cooperation towards the definition process of the Kano/Jigawa common interstate boundary.
The Joint meeting on Kano/Jigawa Interstate boundary was attended by Commissioners,members of the traditional institutions and State boundary committees.
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