The Kebbi State government has finally announced that it would be allocating over 200 hectares of land to a private investor who would be setting up a 5,600 megawatts solar power plant in Kebbi State to further boost their foray into alternative energy.
The former Chief of Staff to Governor Atiku Bagudu, Alhaji Suleiman Muhammad-Argungu had also revealed to some newsmen in Birnin Kebbi that a team of 30 Canadian technicians are due in the state soon to begin work on the Solar plant project.
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He revealed that the state had already secured the consent of the Transmission Company of Nigeria to set up a transmission station to be sited between Argungu and Fakon Sarki.
“The project will be located at Fakon Sarki in Argungu and has been designed to improve and stabilize electricity supply to all communities in the state, as well as to create jobs,’’ he said.
Muhammad-Argungu lauded the state government for interventions in the industrial sector which led to the setting up of rice mills in Argungu, Birnin Kebbi, and Kamba, as well as a tomato processing factory at Ngaski.
In another report, mass defection has continued to rock the Kebbi State’s chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) after two Senators, House of Representatives members and some House of Assembly members in the state defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) this week alone.
Among the defectors, were the Senate Leader, Yahaya Abdullahi, and the former Governor of the State, Senator Adamu Aliero.
Aliero and the Senate Leader left APC for the main opposition PDP along with three serving members of the House of Representatives.
Announcing his defection formally in Birnin Kebbi, the Kebbi State capital, Aliero maintained that his decision was informed by his effort to fulfill the desire of his teeming supporters spread across the state.
