COMPILATION OF CADASTRAL CONTROLS OF KATSINA TOWNSHIP
COMPILATION OF CADASTRAL CONTROLS OF KATSINA TOWNSHIP
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1987-06
Authors
EHOCHE, PETER AKPAIBINOIFAGAAHINU OINU
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Abstract
Land is an essential non-renewable resource of
mankind with a growing and disorderly use due to increased
population pressure and demand for more space per
inhabitant leading to scarcity especially in the urban
centres. Basic to all other land data and helpful in
describing it is its location which is fixed. The
location helps in the coordination and effective use of
land and monuments (controls) are used to describe the
location.
Cadastral controls form township framework providing
references on which future surveys are tied and basic
information on which township maps are made. They give
information on resources available and insight into
how best they can be used. Katsina township framework
is an isolated framework surveyed, coordinated and
freighted between 1959 and 1962.
This compilation brings the history of Katsina
framework into the limelights with the stark realities
of the gross inadequacy of the controls. Most of the
controls established have been lost and also the township
has outgrown the framework in some sections.
Many of the controls were lost due to lack of coordination
in execution of urban public works projects.
There are no up to date township maps. The preparation
of any map requires adequate controls and the coordinates
of these controls must be derived from ground surveys
involving physical measurement of directions and distances.
The picture is the same for most urban centres in Nigeria.
Most plans for the urban centres are still based on out
of date fragmentary information and this is partly
responsible for the wastes and inefficiencies in the
administration of the urban centres.
The revelations of the compilation is used in
designing a new framework for Katsina incorporating the
existing controls that can be used. The same could be
done for most Nigerian townships. The new framework
will provide the necessary information for efficient
planning, execution, coordination and administration of
the township. It will provide adequate statistics which
is essential for modern economic development of the
township.
Description
A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL
IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR
THE AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE
(M.SC.) LAND SURVEYING.
DEPARTMENT OF SURVEYING
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY
ZARIA.
JUNE, 1987
Keywords
COMPILATION,, CADASTRAL,, KATSINA TOWNSHIP