The Kano State House of Assembly has passed the 2016 appropriation bill into law.
The bill was passed during Tuesday’s plenary presided over by the Speaker, Honorable Kabeeru Al-Hassan Rurum, shortly after the house clerk, Alhaji Lawan Badamasi Gezawa read the third reading on the floor of the House.
The bill previously scaled first and second readings.
Before the bill was passed into law, some people in the state had accused the members of deliberately delaying the passage of the bill as a kind of maneuver to blackmail the State Governor, who was committed to the development of the state and the emancipation of the people.
While commenting after the bill was passed into law, Honorable Salisu Ibrahim Doguwa from Doguwa constituency commended the state governor Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje for according priority and preferential treatment to capital projects, more especially in the rural areas in the state.
He then added that, “it is pertinent to note that the state government has put in place viable modalities of sourcing internally generated revenues that will compliment it efforts toward executing the proposed projects.”
In another development, the member representing Gwarzo Local Government Constituency Honourable Habibu Saleh and his colleague from Madobi Local Government, Honourable Zubairu Mahmud Madobi moved a motion calling on the state government to intervene in the incessant incidents of fire outbreak in secondary schools in the state.
According to them, in less than two months, four secondary schools had been gutted by fire, the first being at the Jogana Girls Secondary School where eight students lost their lives.
They said it was a clear indication that something was wrong in the school system and something must be done to arrest the ugly trend as it was putting the younger generation at risk.
The House Speaker, Hon. Kabeeru Al-Hassan Rurum then assigned the Education and Rehabilitation Committees to conduct findings into the remote and immediate causes of the fire incidents.
While directing the committees to submit their reports within one week, he said they must not only look at the causes, but also proffer measures that could be taken to prevent recurrence of the ugly incidents.