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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