Kano State House of Assembly has directed for the immediate stoppage of construction of corner shops and any other structures on the parameter wall of Abdullahi Bayero Juma’at Mosque, in Fagge local government area of Kano state.
The directive was issued by the Speaker, Engineer Hamisu Ibrahim Chidari at today’s plenary session of the house.
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Consequently, the House constituted a 9-member committee to investigate why the land belonging to the mosque is allocated to individuals and report back to it within two weeks.
Members of the committee are; Hon. Muhd Uba Gurjiya as Chairman while Hon. Sunusi Usman Bataiya, Hon. Magaji Dahiru Zarewa, Hon. Nuhu Abdullahi Achika, Hon. Lawan Hussaini Chediyar ’Yan-Gurasa, Hon. Abubakar Dalladi Isa Kademi, Hon. Muhd Tukur and Hon. Sale Ahmed Marke as members and Deputy Director Legal Services of the house would serve as Secretary of the committee.
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The decision by the House follows a motion of matters of urgent public interest moved by a member representing Dala Constituency, Lawan Hussaini Chediyar’Yan-Gurasa, calling on the House to order for the immediate stoppage of any physical structures within the perimeters walls of the mosque.
Presenting his motion, Chediyar Yan-Gurasa, expressed dismay over encroachment of the parameters wall of the mosques in the name of corner shops, lamenting that the house should do everything possible to such illegal structures in order to protect public interest.
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The development is coming a week after a renowned Islamic scholar in the state and member of the Mosque’s Trustee Committee, Sheikh Tijjani Bala Kalarawi resigned his position over alleged indiscriminate allocation of land belonging to the mosque to individuals for corner shops.
Sheikh Kalarawi, Daily Telescope recalled announced his resignation of his membership of the Trustee’s committee of the mosque during a radio programme in Kano.
