Solid Minerals: Kano Commissioner Cautions Farmers on Selling Farmlands to Foreigners
...Advises LGAs to Enact Bye Laws Against Menace Directs a Quarry Manager to Report to The Ministry.... Farmers across the state have been urged to desist from selling Farmlands to Foreigners and other individuals with questionable identities. In a statement signed by the Director Public Enlightenment of the Ministry, Adamu Dabo Dawakin Tofa, said the appeal follows some reliable reports gathered by the ministry on such trends in some local government areas of the state with particular reference to Shanono local government area. Commissioner Safiyanu Hamza Kachako at an emergency stakeholders meeting Monday, in the office of the local government council Chairman Alhaji Abubakar Barau, pointed out that an action plan designed by the ministry would soon take effect across the state to ensure only formal mining activities prevail. According to him such plans include the operational commencement of a Task Force to ensure overall sanity in the sector. He however urged the Cou...