The Kano state Commissioner for Information and Internal Affairs, Halilu Baba Dantiye has said that all arrangements have been concluded towards constituting a commission of inquiry into the ongoing demolition of illegal structures in the state.

Dantiye disclosed this at the swearing-in ceremony of newly elected officials of the Correspondents Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Kano State Council yesterday.

He explained government embarked on the exercise to recover and return lands to its rightful owners and not to be allocated to individuals or group but will be returned to the rightful institutions in the state.

“The government has taken certain actions, some controversial. I was on media on the issue of demolition. I think I was able to address it well.

“Obviously, there is no contradiction that these places belong to institutions, universities, mosques and so on. All the places that were demolished are going to be restored to their original owners.”

“Lands owned by Polytechnic will be restored to the polytechnic to build laboratories, hostels, lecture rooms and others. Lands belonging to the mosques will be returned to the mosques. Nobody is going to be allocated any of such lands.

“Whosever feels dissatisfied with that can approach the Commission of Enquiry, which will be established. Those with convincing reasonable claims will be compensated by the government. He congratulated those, who emerged winners in the by-election to fill in the available positions in the Correspondents’ Chapel.(THISDAY)