Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano state has donated one hundred million Naira to the victims of fire inferno that gutted shops in the popular Kantin Kwari Textile market recently.
The governor announced the donation when he led top government functionaries on a commiseration visit to the market at the weekend.
Yusuf extended the state government’s sympathy to the affected businessmen whose shops were destroyed by the fire incident.
He said the donation was not a compensation to the loss incurred in the inferno, rather it was meant to mitigate the effects of the damages to the affected traders.
Yusuf assured the intervention of Kano state government in improving conducive atmosphere and ease of doing business in the market through installation of solar lights; rehabilitation of road network; construction of drainages and provision of motorised boreholes among others.
He implored the management of the market to initiate programmes that will assist hundred of thousands of traders to conduct their daily businesses without hitches assuring that the state 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.
Managing Director of Kantin Kwari Market Management Board, Alhaji Hamisu Sa’ad Dogon Nama said 29 shops were razed by the fire and appreciated the quick response of Operatives of the Fire Service and other kind-spirited persons who fought bravely to stop the spread of the fire to the neighboring buildings.
The chairman of the Market Elders Committee, Alhaji Sabu’u Bako thanked Governor Yusuf for his concern to the plight of the affected traders.
Bako pleaded with the governor to help solve some of the problems bedeviling smooth operations of the market.