Zamfara Assembly passes bill to create new emirate

The Zamfara State House of Assembly has passed a bill to create additional emirate known as the Bazai Emirate.

The house passed the bill on Wednesday following a bill presented to the House by the executive earlier read on the floor of the House by the Deputy Speaker of the Assembly, Alhaji Abubakar Gummi.

The emirate is to be created out of the present Shinkafi Emirate.

The bill also requested the lawmakers to upgrade the Senior District Head of Jangeru also in Shinkafi to a third class Emir and Kayayen Mafara to a Senior District Head in Talata-Mafara Emirate.

The Assembly set up a committee last Monday to commence processes for the creation or otherwise chaired by Alhaji Ibrahim Kwatarkwashi who is representing Bungudu East in the assembly.

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The committee presented its report on Tuesday after which the motion passed through its second and third reading, presided over by the Deputy speaker, Alhaji Abubakar Gummi.

The Deputy speaker then said both the creation of Bazai Emirate and the upgrading of the statutes of the district heads in Shinkafi and Talata-Mafara had now been passed.

The clerk of the house was thereafter directed to communicate the house’s decision to the executive for assent.

Recall that the Kano State government had also recently created new emirates, in a move that was viewed by many as a ploy to whittle down the powers of the Emir of Kano, Sanusi Muhammad.

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