Kano state declares one week lockdown, as Jigawa State warns against border movement
Akor Joseph in Kano
The Kano State Government has announced a total lockdown of the state for one week as the case of coronavirus became four, with further declaration that no markets should be in operations, as well as stoppage of public gatherings
Penpushing reports that Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje gave the order on Tuesday at a news conference stressing that the lockdown takes effect from Thursday, 10,00pm,adding that it was in the interest of residents
The Governor appealed to residents to intensify prayers to end the pandemic, and this appeal came just as the State on Tuesday recorded additional one coronavirus case and, with this the total number of positive coronavirus case in the state now stands at 4.
Penpushing further reports that, in a related development Governor Muhammadu Badaru of Jigawa State has resolved to intensify adequate security around the borders that shares boundaries with Kano, Bauchi and Kastina.
The Governor made this known to journalists as resolution of the meeting held on Tuesday with members of the State Task Force Committee of COVID 19 and the Local Government Chairman in Dutse, the capital of Jigawa.
“We want to make sure we adequately supervise the coming-in and going-out around our borders between Bauchi, Kano and Kastina as a preventive measure against the outbreak and confirmed cases of COVID-19 in these states”.
Penpushing also reports that, Badaru, thanked the Local Government Chairman for doing wonderfully well for checking the movement of the people with the State that shared borders with jigawa state, adding that “our Local Government Chairman and Task Force for COVID-19, are doing a great job as they are really working hard in monitoring the movement around the border with state that has the coronavirus now, I want to really say a big thank you to them all”.
The Governor, who stated that although the state is not in total lockdown but the state Government has pledged to provide the people of the State with palliative, whenever the State falls into total lockdown, but threatened to take legal actions for the defaulters, who cross the borders and set themselves into the state.
