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ZMHA C’TTEE TO INVESTIGATE SCANDALS ON LAND AND SHOP ALLOCATIONS IN GUSAU

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1 year ago

February 19, 2022

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The house standing committee on lands, housing, town planning and has directed the directorate of lands and survey as well as Zamfara Urban and Regional Planning Board have been directed to submit approvals for all the layout issued to them since the inception of this administration.

According to a statement by the house spokesperson Mustapha Jafar Kaura said ZUREPB is specifically directed to submit all approvals for the allocation of shops in Gusau the state capital as well as their revenue performance from 2019 to date.

Jafaru said the Chairman of the committee Shafiu Dama Wanke gave the directives on Thursday at the end of their committee meeting held at the committee hearing room of the house of assembly complex.

He quoted the Chairman saying after series of engagement with the stakeholders and complaints lodged against land scandals, the committee is left with no option than to take the most appropriate steps of getting to the root of the problem.

Jafar said, Dama expressed his deepest concern on the way some government officials embarked on indiscriminate sales of land and allocation of shops to the highest bidders with much recourse to the statutory laws.

He further said, the committee has given all the affected MDA’s up to Wednesday the 23rd of February 2022 while they would embark on the oversight functions to the agencies on Thursday the 24th of February 2022.

He said his committee was mandated by the House during one of its plenaries of 24/12/2021 to investigate all anomalies regarding land racketeering,

indiscriminate allocation of lands, as well as erecting of illegal structures in government reserved areas in Gusau the state capital

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FMR. ZAMFARA SPEAKER SCORES (229) TO DELIVERS POLING

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2 days ago

March 18, 2023

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Former Speaker of Zamfara House of Assembly Sanusi Garba Rikiji of the APC has scored a total of (229) votes to defeat the PDP who polls (61) votes only.

His poling unit is Rumfar Galadima (013) in Gusau the capital city of Zamfara State.

As for the result of the state house of assembly in his poling units, APC scored a total of (232) to defeat the PDP who polls (51) votes.

Rikiji is currently the house of reps candidate for Gusau and Tsafe in the 2023 election, whose election was declared inclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

He is contesting the seat together with the serving members Kabiru Amadu Mai Palace, who is from the opposition PDP.

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CHAIR ZBIRS, WORKS COMMISSIONER, DELIVERS POLING UNITS

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2 days ago

March 18, 2023

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The Chairman of Zamfara State Board of Internal Revenue Service, Ali Akilu Dama Bungudu has also delivered his poling unit.

His party the APC scored a total (173) to defeat the PDP who scored (111) votes.

Similar votes were also recorded for both political parties at the level of State assembly elections.

Similarly, Zamfara State Commissioner for Works Rabiu Garba Gusau has delivered his poling units with a wide margin to defeat the PDP.

APC scored (96) votes to defeat the opposition People’s Democratic Party, which scored (16) votes for both the Governorship election and state assembly for Gusau (1) at his poling unit.

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SHA’AYAU S. PAWA MAFARA SCORES (502) VOTES TO DEFEAT PDP WITH ZERO VOTE.

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2 days ago

March 18, 2023

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A political ally of former Governor Yari Sha’ayau Yusuf S. Paws has defeated PDP in his Township Primary school poling unit in Talatar Marafa local government area of Zamfara State.

According to an official result sheet, the politician who is a member of All Progressives Congress (APC) scored (502) votes to defeat the PDP who scored (0) votes.

The politician has made history since 2015 by maintaining the only poling units which opposition party has never won a single vote during election.

He repeated the same history during the 2023 Presidential and national assembly elections conducted three weeks back, when PDP failed to score a single vote.