“While Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje earnestly awaits the final report for necessary action, the government, at the onset, has demonstrated the zeal and political will to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the state.”
For obvious reasons, Kano has been in the eye of the storm on several occasions in the country, but the recent spate of terrifying events in northern Nigeria’s largest city have left many still confused.
The government had publicly debunked media reports of strange and massive deaths since the state recorded its first COVID-19 case, insisting that no unusual number of burials had taken place in the state. The government specifically denounced accounts of local undertakers, who put the number of bodies interred at three cemeteries at 150, all in three days.
The mass deaths first came to public notice when a video clip went viral on social media, showing a crowd of sympathisers conveying bodies to Dandolo Cemetery in densely populated Gwale Council of the metropolis at a time the state recorded an index case of COVID-19 pandemic, specifically on Saturday, April 11.
Leader of the delegation and Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Nasiru Sani Gwarzo, told Ganduje on Tuesday that his team was detailed to unravel the mystery behind the prevailing mass deaths, as well as the rising cases of COVID-19 in the state. He stated: “You cannot rule out sentiment in this entire situation, because some people are just fond of creating sensational stories and spreading false information with the intension of causing panic in Kano. Yes, there is increase in the number of deaths in recent times, but we are yet to prove that such has anything to do with COVID-19.
But a consultant in Haematology and Blood Transfusion at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Dr. Ibrahim Musa, believed until the final evidence is brought to the public domain, it would be difficult to dismiss the nexus between the mass deaths and COVID-19 in Kano.
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