NATIONWIDE PROTEST: Governor Abba Yusuf engages opinion leaders in Kano
By KEMI KASUMU
Kano State Governor, Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf, has engaged members of Kano community drawn from various sectors of life, ahead of the nationwide protest slated for Thursday 1st August, 2024.
The participants at the meeting included traditional leadrs, Ulama, members of the business Community, the academia, captains of industries and women organizations.
Addressing the stakeholders at the meeting, Governor Abba Kabir said the engagement was meant to have thorough discussion with a view of finding solutions to present predicament bedeviling people of the state.
This is made known in a statement made available to newsmen by the governor’s spokesperson, Sanusi Bature Dawakin Tofa.
Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf affirmed that people have the constitutional right to engage in protest, yet it should be peaceful and devoid of any act capable of causing unrest or threat to security of lives and properties.
He tasked the unidentified organizers of the protest to be extra cautious and law abiding and avoid being used by the enemies of Kano state to plunge the state into chaos and pandemonium.
The Governor added that Kano State Government is mulling the establishment of Price Control Board to ensure the stabilization of prices of essential commodities in the nooks and crannies of the state.
He frowned at the actions of the police in the state calling on them to sit up and do the needful in carryingout their mandate of protecting the lives and properties of the entire people of the state.
In his address, the Emir of Kano, Malam Muhammadu Sanusi II, lamented on the difficult condition in the country caused by poor economic condition citing good leadership as a mean of improving living condition of people.
He admonished for huge investment in the state by the well-to-do individuals for creation of jobs and resuscitation of the state’s economic viability and prosperity.
