By Murtala Shehu Umar
Kano state government has approved for the establishment of Forensic unit at the state ministry of land and physical planning to curtail land documents forging.
The state commissioner of land and physical planning, Alhaji Adamu Aliyu Kibiya made this known when he paid a courtesy visit to the zonal command of Economic & Financial Crimes Commission commission (EFCC), Kano zonal command.
The commissioner said they were at the Kano zonal command to cement the existing cordial relationship between the two organisations and to seek for more collaboration and working together.
He further said the present administration of Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusif is committed towards fighting against corruption at all costs especially in land sector.
Alh Adamu Kibiya pointed out that since he assumed duty as the commissioner of land and physical planning, he encountered so many challenges which need to be addressed and find lasting solutions.
“As we are all aware, land disputes dominated agencies like ours, most of the cases you are receiving are land related, that is why, we found it necessary to pay you a visit to seek for collaboration and helping hand and through the synergy we can reduce land tussles and bring sanity in land administration in the state”. the commissioner emphasized.
“As a corruption fighting agency, your service is highly needed to handle many and complicated cases and complaint before us. Kano is a mega and fast growing city in Africa, hence the tendency of having land disputes here and there”. he stressed.
According to the commissioner establishing the forensic unit will help the government commitment and zeal of fighting against documents falsification in the ministry of land.
On his part, the acting zonal commandant of EFCC, Kano zonal command, Chinedu Ogbu assured the commissioner of his command’s support to the ministry at all times.
