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.
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.
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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