2 Scavengers die, 3 others injured as Kano demolishes illegal structures

THE Director-General Kano Urban Development Agency (KANUDA) Ibrahim Yakubu, has confirmed that two scavengers lost their lives, and another three people sustained injuries while trying to remove valuable items from the demolished buildings since the inception of demolition of illegal structures on public property.

He, however, added that the state government resolved to carry out demolition at night while people might have slept to avert untold hardship, injuries and untimely death of people who might be around to witness the demolition in daylight.

This was just as he said that no fewer than over 1,000 illegal shops built at the Eid prayer ground have been demolished, saying the ancient prayer ground has been rubbished through being allocated for illegal structures.

According to him, “Two people, who were scavengers have lost their lives, while no fewer than three people sustained injuries while removing items, like rod, pipe iron and other valuable from already structures demolished.

This Eid prayer ground had been in existence for over 500 years, but the previous government allocated the land to some people to construct illegal structures and thereby denied teeming masses to perform their obligations during festivities.

Yakubu while speaking with pressmen at the scene of demolition at Eid prayer ground on Thursday, said that the state governor Abba Kabir Yusuf has called on Nigeria Police to draft his men to various demolition sites and guide miscreants from looting property.

He then called on parents and guardians to warn their children from invading the scene where the demolition had been carried out, in their desperate move to cart away items from demolition buildings.