As Yar’Kutungu Market bowed to the Katsina State Government’s Executive Order, ANDY ASEMOTA examines the factors that led to the relocation of theOn March 16, 2019, the Executive Order of Katsina state government on commercial activities conducted by traders at Yar’Kutungu Market in Katsina metropolis assumed the full weight of law. The governor in the
The Governor’s policy stand, to the enlightened, is a clear commitment to successfully secure a conducive environment for the state’s education and Health Institutions in Yar’ Kutungu axis after traders grabbed the hockey pitch of the Government College Katsina and gradually turned it into a market for about 40 years.
The sledgehammer that fell on the market was not meant to placate Dikko College alone. Some of the objectives for the initiative include the need to provide easy access through the hitherto challenging web of the market to the state-owned School of Nursing, Katsina Psychiatric Hospital and Hassu Iro Inko model primary school among others.
According to the social activist, “there is very little wrong with a market in the centre of the city but of it interferes with other institutions in the society such a market should not be spared”. A source added that the last stroke that gingered the relocation of Yar’ kutungu, as the market is fondly called, was another threat of the nursing council which reportedly had to do with the relocation of the market to pave way for the extra structures needed by the school of nursing for some courses.
A palace source, who spoke the condition of anonymity, told our correspondent that the Emir of Katsina, Alhaji Abdulmummini Kabir Usman, however donated a princely sum of money to fence the plot of land measuring about three hectares he donated as the new site of the market in keeping with his vision to improve the socio-economic growth of Katsina.
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