Gov. Fintiri Restates Commitment To Adamawa’s Sukur Cultural Landscape

Gov. Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa says his administration is committed to the development and restoration of the Sukur cultural landscape in the state.

Fintiri said this in Abuja at a Stakeholders Awareness Support Dinner organised by the Joint National Committee of UNESCO World Heritage Volunteers Initiative.

The governor, who was represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Malam Bashir Ahmad, expressed his administration’s readiness to partner with UNESCO and others to put Sukur on the global map.

According to reports UNESCO has declared the Sukur cultural landscape as a historic site due to its unique art of dry stone architecture and stone terrace farming.

The heritage site had suffered grave damage as a result of insurgency in 2014.

Fintiri, however, said the Sukur landscape and other cultural sites would be given the necessary attention in other to generate revenue.

”Sukur site and other cultural sites should be publicised and turned to serve as source of revenue not only to the indigenes but to the state and the nation at large.

“It is at this point I commend those who have kept Sukur landscape and cultural heritage alive for the past six centuries.

“As a government, we will do all that is necessary to support all those who are on this cause of rediscovering Sukur landscape and cultural heritage,” he said.

A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, stressed the need to create awareness on the imperative of restoring the Sukur landscape and cultural heritage in the bid to boost tourism development in the country.

Dogara, who said tourism could be used to diversify the nation’s economy, stressed the need for partnership among relevant stakeholders to develop and restore the Sukur site.