Again Gome understudies Nasarawa lands reforms

 Led by the North-Eastern state commissioner for the newly established Metropolitan and Urban Development, Mrs. Fatima Abubakar, the delegation’s visit was the third in less than six months, the first being in the month of April when a large delegation from the state visited to take a first look at Nasarawa geographic Information System (NAGIS), […]

 Led by the North-Eastern state commissioner for the newly established Metropolitan and Urban Development, Mrs. Fatima Abubakar, the delegation’s visit was the third in less than six months, the first being in the month of April when a large delegation from the state visited to take a first look at Nasarawa geographic Information System (NAGIS), the reform’s agency.
 The first team of government officials, carefully selected from stakeholders in the Gombe State lands management paid a visit was the umpteenth from similar stakeholders, since May 30, 2013 when Al-Makura led former FCT minister, Nasir El-Rufai and other stakeholders to commission what has stood Nasarawa out as a state transporting itself from an agrarian society, to a sophisticated one.
 Again, a team from Gombe was at the NAGIS complex in September, a prelude to the last visit which came up last week.
 The last visit took the delegation to as far as Lafia, where they had a meeting with the state commissioner of Lands and Urban Development, Sonny Agassi who took them through the relevant technology deployed to execute NAGIS in compliance with world best practices.
 The Gombe commissioner was represented by Alhaji Salihu Alkali, head of the state Urban Planning Development Board. He was leading Ahmad Aliyu El-Nafaty and Mr. Stephen Manaja of the same board, as well as Ibrahim Mohammed of the Metropolitan and Urban Development ministry.
 Aggasi, the Nasarawa commissioner, who was accompanied by the Project Manager, Alhaji Ibrahim Usman Jibril, Roland Klaus, General Manager of GIS Transport, and Peter Ritchie, a senior Marketing Consultant on the NAGIS project, took the visitors through the maps and Orthophotos generated after the project’s partners flew over the landscape of Nasarawa with light aircrafts to capture every bit of what is on ground on the land size of 27,300 square kilometers.
 “It is a project which has not only brought us out as a transporting ourselves from agrarian, to sophisticated; NAGIS has earned us the name petro-dollar ministry because of the big cash being hauled from it. The numbers do speak for themselves for every state to see,” Agassi told the visitors, urging them to emulate Governor Al-Makura’s lands reforms policy.