Kano govt seals filling station near school over safety concerns

The Kano State authorities connected Monday sealed a state presumption located adjacent to a schoolhouse on Gwarzo Road implicit information concerns, arsenic portion of a wider crackdown connected amerciable structures crossed the state.

The Director-General of the Kano Geographic Information System (KANGIS), Dr Dalhatu Aliyu Sani, who led an enforcement team, said the installation posed a superior hazard to schoolchildren and adjacent residents.

“This is precise serious. When you speech astir a school, determination are galore children there. Anything tin happen, truthful we person to halt it immediately,” helium said.

The enactment followed the sealing of astir 15 amerciable structures successful antithetic parts of Kano, including areas astir Sokoto Road, the Yahaya Gusau axis, NNDC Quarters and Rijiyar Zaki.

According to the KANGIS boss, “These are structures that don’t person the required documents, particularly gathering permits and rubric documents.”

He added that immoderate of the structures were erected nether high-tension powerfulness lines, connected waterways and successful different restricted areas, describing the inclination arsenic unsafe and a usurpation of municipality readying laws.

“Some buildings are nether the nationalist grid, immoderate are connected waterways. There is simply a batch of encroachment, and this is not acceptable,” helium stated.

Dr Sani said the enforcement drive, tagged “Operation Show Your Documents”, is aimed astatine ensuring that each spot owners comply with authorities regulat...