Katsina Gov Commits To Expanding Infrastructure Projects Across The State

The Katsina State Governor, Dikko Radda, has reiterated readiness to continue to invest in critical infrastructure as well as supporting entrepreneurship and innovations in a bid to move the state to a more enviable heights.

The governor made this known at the Award/Dinner Night commemorating the 37th anniversary of the state creation held at the Presidential Banquet Hall, Government House on Tuesday in Katsina.

Radda, while speaking on the security, reaffirmed commitment to ensuring the safety of lives and property in the state, with the creation of the Ministry for Internal Security and Home Affairs.

“Under the ministry, about 1,456 Community Watch Corps have been recruited and equipped with working tools to enhance their capabilities.

“Accordingly, an additional 500 Community Watch Corps will soon be recruited to strengthen the collaborative effort of security agencies in the fight against banditry and other criminalities within the state,” he said.

According to him, in the last 14 months, his administration has positively changed the future of the state through expanded access to quality education, pointing to the recruitment of 7,325 teachers as well as renovation and upgrading of a number of primary and secondary schools across the state.

“The current state administration has also sponsored about 109 students from public schools to study Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology and MBBS in China and Egypt under foreign scholarship schemes,” the governor said.

Radda also spoke on the achievement recorded in the health sector, saying that a contract has been awarded for the upgrade of three primary health centres to the status of full fledged general hospital at Faskari, Dandume and Charanchi Local Government Areas aimed at decongesting the existing general hospitals in the state.

The governor, however, remarked that the administration has renovated and equipped over 100 Primary Healthcare Centres within the 34 LGs in an effort to provide access to health care services across the state and announced that the state government’s plan to build at least one functional PHC clinics in each of the 361 political wards of the state.