IN its effort to have a modern airport, Zamfara State
government has concluded arrangement to demolish 800 houses which were
illegally constructed at the present Gusau airstrip.
This was disclosed by the state governor, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari during an interactive session with some select journalists in Gusau on Friday.
According to him, the 800 houses marked for demolition were illegally constructed on the Gusau airstrip, saying that, “We have a plan to turn the airstrip into a small modern airport”.
He said he had set up a committee to verify the actual number of those who will be affected in the demolition exercise with the view to compensating them according to the laws of the land.
Gov Yari counselled them to co-operate with the committee as his government had no intention of adding more sufferings on its citizens.
He posited that building the airport at the present site was cheaper than building it at the proposed cargo site.
“When I made my intention known that I wanted an airport, the proposal given to me was running to billions of naira, but I was told that with N700m I can have an airport that can accommodate small planes,” he declared.
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This was disclosed by the state governor, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari during an interactive session with some select journalists in Gusau on Friday.
According to him, the 800 houses marked for demolition were illegally constructed on the Gusau airstrip, saying that, “We have a plan to turn the airstrip into a small modern airport”.
He said he had set up a committee to verify the actual number of those who will be affected in the demolition exercise with the view to compensating them according to the laws of the land.
Gov Yari counselled them to co-operate with the committee as his government had no intention of adding more sufferings on its citizens.
He posited that building the airport at the present site was cheaper than building it at the proposed cargo site.
“When I made my intention known that I wanted an airport, the proposal given to me was running to billions of naira, but I was told that with N700m I can have an airport that can accommodate small planes,” he declared.
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