NASS’ll be fair to all, Senate assures promoters of Tiga, Gari states in Kano

Ahead of the commencement of another round of the review of the 1999 Constitution by the, the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Barau Jibrin, has assured members of the movement for the creation of Tiga and Gari states from Kano State that the Senate and the House of Representatives would be just to all.

Speaking yesterday in Abuja when members of the movement, led by Senator Mas’ud El-Jibrin Doguwa, paid him a courtesy call at the National Assembly, the Deputy President of the Senate, who chairs the Senate Committee on Constitution Review, said the 10th Assembly would give all groups advocating states creation equal opportunities to present their cases.

In a statement yesterday by his Special Adviser, Media and Publicity, Ismail Mudashir, the Deputy Senate President commended the members of the movement for Tiga and Gari states for sustaining the tempo over the years.

Earlier in his remarks, Senator Doguwa, who stressed the need for the creation of two states from Kano State, said in the last 40 years, they had been advocating the splitting of Kano State, given its size and population, to fast-track its development.