Boundary Closure : Ganduje Monitors Compliance, Orders Prosecution Of Defaulters

Kano State Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje on Monday monitored compliance to boundary closure due to COVID-19 with a visit to town linking Kano and Kaduna states, where he caught defaulters who defied the directive and trying to access the state.

Solacebase recalled that Kano State Government on Friday, March 27^th closed its borders to others state at midnight to prevent the COVID-19 pandemic.

A statement issued by Chief Press Secretary to the Governor Abba Anwar on Monday and forwarded to Solacebase said the defaulters caught were on separate trips in 9 different types of vehicles.

The statement said there were 2 Tippers, 2 Trucks, Two Buses and 1 Coaster bus.

‘’They were all sighted at different locations of the road coming to Kano, defying all orders given by the state government,’’ the statement said.

‘’Asking one of the drivers of the trucks with a very frowning face, showing how unhappy he was (Ganduje), he said “Where are you coming from with these people? Who asked you to bring them here? Aren’t you aware that such kind of movement is banned!

According to the statement, while speaking to journalists after inspecting the scenes, he said “We are here to see how people are complying with the directive we gave for boundary closure. Those that you are seeing are from Madallah in the FCT. They were not screened to ascertain their health condition. And more so, there is directive banning all such movement.”

He was visibly angry over the defaulters’ behaviour, adding that, “These people you are seeing will all be taken to Police stations and they will be prosecuted for such unpatriotic behaviour.”

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He disclosed that they were using smaller routes when approaching blocked areas. “They then pass all the checkpoints either by foot or on motorcycles and later join the vehicles conveying them from their places. All vehicles would now pass empty. We didn’t order the security agents to allow empty vehicles passing,” he queried.

He assured that more security personnel would be deployed to all the affected routes linking the state with other states, not only from the Kaduna-Abuja axis.