Advertisement In a statement on Monday, Muyiwa Adekeye, the governor’s spokesman, recalled that in June 2019, Nasir El-Rufai, governor of the state, initiated the urban renewal programme to build, expand and maintain infrastructure in the state. “This effort to remake the urban landscape and improve the quality of life in our cities continues the deliberate programme that began in 2015 with the establishment of the Kaduna Geographic Information Service (KADGIS),” he said. He said the KADGIS has issued 51,302 certificates of occupancy since 2017 for new allocations and the recertification of previous titles and has also allocated 4,359 plots in Kaduna. Advertisement He added that the state is actively being positioned as a lower cost alternative to Abuja.