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By Salisu K Ismail
Jigawa State Government has commenced the process of revocation of plots and lands belonging to individuals and organizations that failed to effect development on the spaces allocated to them contrary to all the Terms and Conditions of the allocation grants.
The decision was made public during the State Executive Council Meeting held, Thursday, at the Jigawa state Government House, Dutse.
Briefing the newsmen on the resolutions taken by the Council, the Jigawa state Commissioner of Information, Youths and Culture, Sagir Musa said that, the meeting chaired on by Governor Umar Namadi has approved the revocation of any unused plots and land in good faith for the development of the state.
The Commissioner of Information however, stated that, considering the current economic hardships, the council has also approved the distribution of various commodities including food items and fertilizers across the newly established palliative shops in the 27 local government areas to ease the hardships of the vulnerables and local farmers in the state
More so, Mr. Musa said, "The Council has also suspended the distribution of the palliative shops’ commodities in 7 LGAs (namely, Babura, Birnin Kudu, Gumel, Hadejia, Kazaure, Kirikasamma and Kiyawa) where government stores were vandalized during the protest incidents in some part of the state particularly at stores owned by JASCO, JARDA & SEMA respectively until further notice."
Similarly, "The Executive Council approved the closure of JASCO and JARDA stores in the above LGAs until when Government is satisfied with the safety of items to be delivered in the affected areas. Moreover, the Council has approved the temporary closure of the vandalized State Skills Acquisition Centers in Babura and Birnin Kudu," he added.
Also, the Council, approved the release of (N3,422,239,826.32) only for the payment of Jigawa State 1,331 Civil Servants retirement benefits and death gratuities through the Jigawa (State and Local Governments) Contributory Pension Scheme.
In another development, Mr. Sagir Musa explained that, the Council sympathized with the people of Jigawa state over the recent flood incident in some parts of the State that led to lose of lives, houses, farms produce and properties worth billion of naira.
NEWSKEEPER reports that, recently, Jigawa state has experienced flash flooding due high velocity of rain fall in about 10 LGAs that involved; Auyo, Buji, Birnin Kudu, Guri, Gwaram, Hadejia, Kafin Hausa, Kirikasamma, Ringim, and Taura respectively.
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