Nasiru Yusuf

The Kano Water Tankers Association and association of table Water producers have endorsed the Gubernatorial ambition of Action Democratic Party Gubernatorial Candidate, Shaaban Ibrahim Sharada .

KANO FOCUS reports that Chairman of Water Tankers association comrade Auwal Shuaibu disclosed this when he led executive members of the association on a courtesy call to the ADP Governorship candidate in Kano.

Comrade Auwal Shuaibu said, the association have contributed immensely in electing previous administrations in Kano from 1999 to date, but there is no meaningful achievement to show especially in helping the association towards achieving set goals and targets.

The Chairman said they decided to pull their weight behind the ADP Governorship candidate as a young politician who has Kano at heart.

“Since the return to Democracy in 1999, none of the previous administrations laid down an agenda for the benefit of the young people in Kano except the ADP Governorship candidate and any Candidate that has no agenda for Education is not a candidate.

“The reason why we declare support for you is that there is no lawmaker that provided scholarship like you,Youth are left behind in the political process and you  belong to no body except the common man, ” said comrade Shuaibu.

In a a remark by  Ahmad Bala Hudu Chairman Table Water Producers Association of Nigeria, decried how the government has never involve them in uplifting their association except extortion and other unjustifiable charges despite having over 1,700 thousand members.

A statement issued by Abbas Yusha’u Yusuf the spokesperson of  Sha’aban’s campaign council qouted the traders saying that “government has never done anything to uplift us or help develop our businesses. We boast of over 1700 members, we are being extorted daily to the extent that we can not produce optimally.”

In a remark the secretary sachet table water producers association of Nigeria Mukhtar Kanta said they have over one million members and they are not being considered in Government policies and it becomes necessary to pitch their tent with Shaaban Ibrahim Sharada as he warms up to take over Kano Government House.

Mukhtar Kanta also solicited  for the establishment of Producer Protection Council by the incoming ADP administration in Kano to address quackery among Producers in the state .

Responding the ADP Governorship candidate, Shaaban Ibrahim Sharada eulogised the Table Water Producers association and association of Water Tankers, noting that they are doing what the government is supposed to do by providing portable drinking water to the populace.

The candidate quoted some statistics provided by International organizations that 785 million people are battling with lack of pure and clean water and 844 thousand are dying annually across the globe due to lack of it.

He said those affected by the calamity are mostly  women and children where they spent 200 million hours annually looking for safe drinking water which is an essential component of life.

He lamented how portable pipe bone drinking water has  become a nightmare in many parts  of the metropolis, let alone the villages of Kano. He promised to ensure availability of safe drinking water to the populace.