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Kabiru Ibrahim Gaya |
Kabiru Ibrahim Gaya was born on June 16th 1952. He is an indigene of Kano State.
He had his early education at Gaya Central Primary School. He then proceeded to Government College, Birnin Kudu where he obtained his SSCE Certificate. he proceeded further to College of
Advanced Studies Kano for his A-Levels. He had his university Education at the prestigious Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, in Kaduna State where he obtained his bachelor?s Degree and Masters in Archirtecture. He was also awarded an honorary Doctorate Degree by the University Of Science And Applied Management, Porto-Novo, Benin.
He was the Executive Governor of Kano State from 1992?1993. In 2003, Kabiru Ibrahim Gaya ran for the National Democratic Party (NDP) in the 2003 gubernatorial election in Kano State.
Before joining the All Nigerian Peoples Party, ANPP, he was board member of Kano State Environmental Planning and Protection Agency (KASEPPA), which is a government agency in Kano State that is responsible for issues concerning the environment in the state. Its Functions included planning urban centers, control of development in urban centers, provision of amenities, conveniences and infrastructures and other functions necessary for healthy and orderly urban growth.
As a leading architect, he was eminently qualified to work in ?KASEPPA, which is responsible for ensuring that public land is not illegally allocated to individuals. The body also destroys illegally constructed buildings.
Kabiru Ibrahim Gaya contested for and was elected to the Senate for Kano South in 2007. He was appointed to committees on Gas, Local and Foreign Debts, States & Local Government, and Upstream Petroleum Resources and Works. In a mid-term assessment of the performance of Senators. It is worthy to note that he sponsored the Finance Management and Accountability Bill, 2009, and the Millennium Development Agency Bill, 2009. He also co-sponsored five motions and contributed well to debates in plenary.
In May 2008, as chairman of the Senate committee on works, Kabiru Gaya lamented that some projects were going very slowly, but said the Senate would never subscribe to the idea of privatising Nigerian roads.
In November 2009 he supported a motion by the Kano chapter of the ANPP to allow the state governor, Ibrahim Shekarau, to nominate the ANPP candidate for the 2011 governorship elections. The presumptive nominee was Sheikh Ibrahim Khaleel.
On When asked on the impact he has made in his senatorial district by virtue of holding the senate committee on works as well as membership of important committees such as gas, upstream petroleum resources, he reeled out a long and impressive list of projects that he has attracted to Kano South Senatorial District. He has this to say ?In the area of education, I have built 320 class rooms and 17 skill acquisition centres throughout Kano South and as far as water resources were concerned, I have sunk exactly 276 solar-activated boreholes.?
The Senator is recorded to have attracted 18 health centres across his Kano South area and as far as job creation was concerned, he has facilitated the employment of 670 men and women into productive employment. He has also brought about the installation of 6000 tube well and irrigation pumps in his senatorial district which is an essentially agriculture based economy?.
Senator Gaya added that in the power sector; 30 transformers he brought to the areas of Kano south has helped to improve the power situation in the area and has seen a vast improvement in growth in the local suburbs rather than everybody moving to the cities.
Kabiru Ibrahim Gaya again ran for election as Senator for Kano South on the ANPP platform in April 2011, and was reelected.
He was the Senate's Deputy Minority Whip from 2007 until 2011
In 2015, under the platform of the All Progressive Congress(APC), he was again reelected as a senator representing Kano South Senatorial District.
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