Kano govt to rehabilitate ancient walls with demolition debris

By Aminu Garko

The Kano divulge authorities intends to reconstruct the long-established Kano metropolis walls with subject topic from a amount of demolitions in the divulge.

Governor Abba Yusuf talked about this after inspecting ongoing demolition net sites in Kano.

He talked about that the police and participants of the Nigeria Safety and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) had already been assigned to provide protection to demolition net sites in opposition to scavengers.

“We went round the metropolis to leer the a amount of demolished net sites. We now get determined to spend the debris of the demolished net sites to rehabilitate Kano metropolis walls to raise history, beautify the divulge and acquire it space of appeal as a national monument,” Yusuf talked about.

Yusuf entreated the folk of the divulge to proceed to be conscious the regulation and to fable any suspicious movements to safety officers in pronounce that they would be dealt with like a flash.

Kano’s broken-down metropolis walls get been defensive walls constructed to provide protection to the Kano folk. The wall, regarded as “West Africa’s most impressive monument,” has stood for almost 800 years. It was constructed between 1095 and 1134 and carried out in the mid-fourteenth century.

Sarki Gijimasu (r. 1095-1134), the Kano List’s third king, discipline the groundwork for the wall’s development.

At some stage in the reign of Zamnagawa in the mid-14th century, the wall was carried out before being enlarged in the 16th century.

Per historians, the then-Current-Governor of the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria, Fredrick Lugard, claimed in a 1903 fable relating to the Kano Walls that he had “never seen something savor it in Africa” after seizing Kano with British troopers.

The walls get been before the entirety predicted to be 30 to 50 feet gargantuan and 40 feet thick at the detrimental, with 15 gates encircling them.

NAN