Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano state, has appealed for
an urgent ease of the 14-day total lockdown the federal government imposed on
the state.
Following the rise in COVID-19 cases and the strange deaths
in the state, President Muhammadu Buhari had ordered a total lockdown in Kano
which took effect on Monday.
But the governor said it is important to relax the lockdown
for a while in order to ease the hardship in the state, especially in the holy
month of Ramadan.
Speaking on Thursday at the government house where he
inaugurated a panel of experts to support the state task force technical
committee, Ganduje said government is expanding treatment centres for COVID-19.
“We would engage the presidential task force on COVID-19 to
seek permission to relax the total lockdown imposed on Kano,” he said.
“We are making this appeal on behalf of our people who are
presently running out of food items. We would love the federal government to
relax the lockdown for a period of time to enable people stock their homes,
especially now that majority of us are fasting. It will also ease the economic
hardship in the state.”
The panel led by Musa Borodo, president of the National
Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, was given the responsibility of
developing strategy and supporting the state task force on COVID-19 to adopt
measures for checking the spread of the virus.
Tijani Hussain, the state coordinator of the task force, put
the COVID-19 death toll in Kano at five, saying none of the deceased died at
the isolation centre.
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