The Kano State Government has described as baseless alleged plans to demolish a bridge said to be constructed by the Senate Deputy President, Barau Jibrin in his Gwarzo hometown.
The Commissioner for Information, Baba Halilu Dantiye, who dismissed the report, said, “In the first place there was no Bridge said to be built by the Senate Deputy President, Barau Jibrin that would be demolished by them.
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Recently some residents of Gwarzo town, protested the alleged planned demolition of the bridge constructed by Barau Jibrin.
However, the Information Commissioner, noted while reacting to the report in Kano, that what happened was that some People approached the Government seeking for the construction of the Bridge.
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“And the government had already mobilized its teams of Engineers who surveyed the place and as usual in a professional way of construction bridge’s all necessary engineering jobs are undergoing while we are awaiting the submission of reports”.
He said however, some overzealous groups went to the site and commenced some minor handy works on the place, and used that as a propaganda machine to say that Barau Jibrin had constructed the bridge and the Government is planning to demolish it.
The original bridge which was located at the Gwarzo town bypass, was washed away three weeks ago following a torrential rainfall that caused flooding.
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Following the flooding, residents said the locals appealed to the Government to work on it, “and plans are already on the way to reconstruct the bridge only for these overzealous groups to now start a protest that there was a bridge and we are destroying”.
Dantiye explained that even Barau Jibrin, when asked by the Government, said he was not aware of any bridge he built that is causing friction between him and government.
