President, Dangote Group of Companies,
Alhaji Aliko Dangote has pledged to
construct a 500 megawatt power plant for
Kano, Katsina, Jigawa and Kaduna states.
In his address at the 36th Kano Trade Fair
held in Kano, the executive director
stakeholders management, Engr. Mansur
Ahmad who represented Aliko Dangote at
the occasion stated that power plant is a
deliberate attempt to support local
economy and wealth creation.
Engr. Mansur maintained that without
power industries and commerce will
cripple and businesses will tremendously
decline and that has been the situation in
Kano for decades, saying anything to be
done to revive such would have to be done
now than anytime.
The Executive Director revealed that they
were currently discussing with the Kano
State government on the 500 mega watt
power supply and final agreement will be
sign in few weeks to come.
According to him, Dangote has been
providing support areas of health and
education in Kano, adding that in the next
few weeks they are going to hand over six
out of the health care facilities built and
were completed to Kano government.
In his words Dangote group has done quite
a lot of intervention across the federation,
sighting the example of Ebola case were
Dangote group expended over a billion
naira to control it’s spread and another
billion naira support to Internally
Displaced Persons, IDP’s in especially the
north east.
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