Posted on: 05:02 Sun, 29 Nov 2015



President, Dangote Group of
Companies, Alhaji Aliko Dangote has
pledged to construct a 500 megawatt
power plant for Kano, Katsina,
Jigawa and Kaduna states.

In his address at the 36th Kano
Trade Fair held in Kano, the
executive director stakeholders
management, Engr. Mansur Ahmad
who represented Aliko Dangote at
the occasion stated that power plant
is a deliberate attempt to support
local economy and wealth creation.

Engr. Mansur maintained that
without power industries and
commerce will cripple and
businesses will tremendously decline
and that has been the situation in
Kano for decades, saying anything to
be done to revive such would have to
be done now than anytime.

The Executive Director revealed that
they were currently discussing with
the Kano State government on the
500 mega watt power supply and
final agreement will be sign in few
weeks to come.

According to him, Dangote has been
providing support areas of health
and education in Kano, adding that
in the next few weeks they are going
to hand over six out of the health
care facilities built and were
completed to Kano government.

In his words Dangote group has done
quite a lot of intervention across the
federation, sighting the example of
Ebola case were Dangote group
expended over a billion naira to
control it’s spread and another
billion naira support to Internally
Displaced Persons, IDP’s in especially
the north east.