Kano Deaths: Kwanwkanso Faults Ganduje Blames COVID-19

By Ayodele Oluwafemi

Former Governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso has urged the Federal Government to take action over the deaths of senior citizens in the state, noting that the deaths were caused by COVID-19.

Kwankwaso, in a letter written to President Muhammadu Buhari, a copy which was shared on his Twitter handle, on Monday, said the lack of testing centers in the state had led many to self-medication.

Governor Abdullahi Ganduje and his officials had earlier insisted that the deaths were not caused by COVID-19.

Kwankwanso, however, claimed that most of those who died in recent days were unaware of their COVID-19 status.

Part of the letter reads “Permit me, Mr. President, to draw your attention to the spike in mystery deaths among the aged population in Kano State in the last couple of weeks. Hundreds of funerals have been recorded in all the cemeteries of the eight metropolitan local governments alone.

“Looking at the pattern elsewhere in the world where senior citizens with preexisting conditions were the main fatalities of the novel coronavirus, we are concerned that the inability to conduct tests in the state to determine the status of these senior citizens might be responsible for their death.

“We are even more concerned that if sincere and efficient machinery is not urgently put in place to understand and mitigate against this, more lives of innocent senior citizens will be lost.

“I should inform Mr. President that since the announcement of the positive results of the members of the committee, no test was ever conducted in the entire state again. This is very frightening as neither asymptomatic nor active cases are being identified and isolated, as such carriers of this dreaded virus are all about and spreading it and causing the untimely death of especially our senior citizens.”

Kwankwaso also suggested some policies to be carried out by the Federal Government in order to contain the deaths of people in the state, he recommended the following among others points,

“The situation in the state should not be seen by Mr. President as a state government matter that should be left to the state. The lives of tens of millions of Nigerians living In Kano state is at stake, as such the central government should be seen to be actively involved in caring for, and saving their lives. There is need for empathy;

“The federal government should take over the responsibility of rapid response on Coronavirus in the state:

“The State Government should be made to constitute a proper State Taskforce on COVlD-19 with members selected base on their professionalism and competence;

“At least five additional test centres should be established with 10 other sample collection centres across the State.”

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