Tambuwal Bars Suspected COVID-19 Patients from Entering Sokoto

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Sokoto State Governor, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal, has directed all security formations in the state to ensure that an indigene of the state, whose son has been diagnosed positive for COVID-19, is not allowed into the state.

Tambuwal gave the directive on Monday when he received the report of the advisory committee on the state sponsored Ramadan Feeding Programme (RFP) at the Government House in Sokoto.



He said when he received a report that Alhaji Musa Bashar, whose son, Abubakar, had just returned from Dubai, United Arab Emirate (UAE), and was infected by the deadly virus, he advised him not to come to Sokoto.



"I spoke with him on telephone twice pleading that he should not come to the state. But he told me that he has a pass to come. I have therefore directed the security operatives to be vigilant. They should arrest him and return him to Abuja immediately," the governor told journalists.



Visibly worried by the insistence of the affected indigene seeking to breach the closure of the state border, Tambuwal appealed to the Islamic scholars and other stakeholders in the state to prevail on Bashar, who is also the father of Abdulrahman Musa Bashar, an Abuja-based businessman, to stay away from the state.

The governor told the people of the state that COVID-19 is real, and that no stone should be left unturned in ensuring that the disease does not enter the state.

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