“Relax lockdown in Kano so residents can buy food” – Gov. Ganduje tells FG

Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje has asked the Federal Government to relax the curfew imposed in the state on Monday 27th of April, 2020 so as to enable residents to buy food.

The federal government, via an address by the Head of States, President Muhammadu Buhari some days back, imposed a two-weeks total lockdown on Kano state following reports of mysterious deaths in the state.

The state’s governor has now appealed to the FG to ease the lockdown because its residents are running out of food.

Ganduje made the appeal while inaugurating a panel of experts led by the president of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria Musa Borodo, to support the state task force technical committee.

He said,

“We would engage the presidential task force on COVID-19 to seek permission to relax the total lockdown imposed on Kano.

“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.”