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Kano taskforce co-chair, 3 others test positive for COVID-19

Nazifi Dawud
The Kano state government on Friday confirmed that co-chairman of its Task Force Committee on COVID-19, Professor Abdulrazak Garba Habibu and three other members of the committee have tested positive for the presence of the coronavirus.
KANO FOCUS reports that this was revealed in a statement by Hadiza Namadi, a spokesperson for the state’s Ministry of Health.
The additional cases have brought to 25 the total number of COVID-19 infections in the state, including one death.
“Kano State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Aminu Ibrahim Tsanyawa, has maintained that the number of Covid-19 confirmed cases in the state as at 11:15 am today Friday remain 21 with a single death.

“However, Dr. Tsanyawa, with deep sense of sadness and on behalf of the state government, hereby announces that the Co-chairman and some members of Kano State Taskforce on Covid 19 were tested and three of the results came out positive of the Corona Virus disease,” the statement read.
It also advised the general public to keep social distancing, avoid overcrowding and stay at home to keep safe as it continue to take measures to contain the spread of the disease in the state.
The 14-member Kano State Task Force Committee on COVID-19 is led by Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna, who is also the state’s deputy governor.
However, Mr Gawuna has announced that he has tested negative for the virus.
Other members of the committee include the state’s Commissioner for Health, Aminu Ibrahim Tsanyawa, the Commissioner for Environment, Kabiru Ibrahim Getso, the Director, Public Health, Imam Wada Bello and Amina Ganduje, a medical practitioner and daughter of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje.
‘No COVID-19 patient escaped’
Meanwhile, the state’s Commissioner for Health, Aminu Ibrahim Tsanyawa has denied media reports that a COVID-19 patient had escaped from Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) to an unidentified isolation centre in the state.
In a statement by Hadiza Namadi, a spokesperson for the health ministry, Mr Tsanyawa described the report as unprofessional and untrue.
”A professional reporter should, basically, understand that, COVID-19 testing is not like Malaria or Typhoid fever test, where a patient takes himself to hospital and finds his way at will,” the commissioner said.
He urged members of the public to “make enquiries on how COVID-19 suspected index cases are handled with all caution and sense of responsibility”.

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How we saved billions of public funds by blocking leakages – Gov Yusuf

Nasiru Yusuf Ibrahim
The Kano State Government has said that it has blocked leakages and fraudulent siphons of the public treasury, saying in just a few months in office, Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf has saved billions of Naira.
KANO FOCUS reports that the Government alluded that hundreds of leakages had led to the misuse of public funds by those in authority, while institutions, government offices, and the general well-being of the public suffered neglect.
Delivering an address at the commemoration of the 2023 International Anti-Corruption Day, Saturday, hosted by the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission (PCACC), the State Governor Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf, represented by his Deputy Governor Aminu Abdussalam Gwarzo says the government has zero tolerance for corruption.
The Deputy Governor, who represented Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf at the event, explained that some of the giant strides taken by the state government towards ensuring a better life for the people of the state are evidence of the fact that it does not tolerate corruption.

He explained that the regime has resumed payment of salaries to civil servants without unnecessary deductions introduced by the immediate past regime.
He added that public properties illegally acquired by individuals in the immediate past regime have been recovered and put to public use, giving an example of the Hasiya Bayero Paediatric Hospital.
He said the government has also prioritized the creation of Anti-Corruption units in government agencies while ensuring it pays pensions and gratuities of retirees neglected by the immediate past regime worth N6 billion.
In his opening address, the chairman of the Kano anti-graft agency, Muhyi Magaji Rimingado described the agency as the most vibrant subnational anti-graft agency in the country.
Muhyi Rimin Gado hints that as of today the State Anti Graft office has become a source of inspiration with many other State Governors seeking technical advice on how to create and sustain their own.
He explained that the day is commemorated with the view of mobilizing the public towards fighting corruption.

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Kano guber tussle: Tinubu, APC using judiciary to destabilise the northern commercial center, Arewa coalition

Aminu Abdullahi
A pan Arewa movement known as Northern Coalition Youths Movement Initiative (NYMI) has accused President Bola Ahmed Tinubu led administration and the ruling All progressives Congress (APC) of an hidden agenda to destabilize the Northern commercial nerve center in order to weaken the economy of the region.
KANO FOCUS reports that this was disclosed in an elaborate world press conference at Arewa House in Kaduna state on Saturday.

The secretary general of the movement, Comrade Ibrahim Mohammed Inuwa, pointed to series of moves being made by the government to undermine the region using judiciary to subvert the people’s mandate in Kano, Plateau and Zamfara.
He said, in recent times, they have observed with dismay, how the much esteemed judiciary has become the lapdog to the executive arm of government which they said is expected to check as an independent entity.
“Gone are the days when judges dish out logical judgments that are acceptable to the litigants in any disputes. It is however sad that the administration of Pres. Bola Tinubu and APC has resorted to using the judiciary to snatch what it has lost at the ballot.
“Under the APC, the votes of the people no longer count, this is because the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has become an extended part of the ruling party. In a bid to do the bidding of the APC.
“Judiciary has now become the rubber stamp to the massive scale of electoral robbery in the country. Where the INEC fails to award victories to APC candidate, the same courts are the avenue where the victories of the opposition parties are now only arrested but also stolen and given to the APC.
“Nigerians are living witnesses to what is going on in the Court of Appeal with respect to the governorship poll in Kano, Plateau and Zamfara States where the opposition parties have won the state at the ballot box and the attempt by the Federal Government to snatch these states from the winning political parties.
“What is even more embarrassing is the case of Kano where the Court of Appeal is still finding it hard to defend its verdict on the election which many have come to see as very ignoble and horrible. The fact that the verdict is tainted was further shown aa the NNPP try to secure the certified true copy of the judgment revealed the underhand dealings that must have happened with the document revealing contradictory outcomes.
While some paragraphs upheld the election of Gov Abba Kabir Yusuf of the NNPP as duly elected.
“The embarrassment created by the nasty scenario is yet to abate as we address you as the action has further put the judiciary in the negative spot in the minds of right thinking Nigerians who have lost faith in that vital arm of the government.
“The most laughable verdict also is the issue of internal affairs of each political parties which is clearly enshrined in our electoral act and which the supreme court has long settled, yet that is the issue the same judiciary is using to upturn Kano’s mandates which was freely given to NNPP”,
The coalition accused the Tinubu’s government of waging war against leading political lights from the region in a bid to destroy or whittle down their relevance before the poll.
He said the coalition has been monitoring the development for some time, he however urged leaders in the North to live up to their responsibility of protecting the interest of their region.
He added “We wish to draw the attention of the people of the North to an ongoing sinister plot by Pres. Tinubu and the ruling All progressives Congress APC to politically decimate the North and render it impotent ahead of the forthcoming 2027 general election.
“The coalition lamented the fate of the immediate past Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir el-Rufa’i in the hands of the current government despite the support it gave to President Bola Tinubu during the electioneering campaign.
“One individual whose support and assistance to the emergence of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the former Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir el-Rufa’i who worked on his colleagues in the North to sway victory for President Tinubu.
“What did he get in return? The former governor was rubbished by the government when his nomination was rejected by the Senate during confirmation allegedly on spurious claims of not scaling security screening,” the group wrote.
They also listed those who have been humiliated by the current government include, Senators Danjuma Goje, Abdulazeez Yari.
The statement further reads that “The former Zamfara State Governor was subsequently rubbish by the government when he tried to become the Senate President of the country. He was hounded and cowed to submission by the agents of the government and the state.”
Not done, they added that “Another Northerner who has also been humiliated since coming into being of this governmen

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Kano governorship: NNPP, APC sign fresh peace accord ahead of supreme court ruling

Nasiru Yusuf Ibrahim
The the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) Friday signed another peace accord ahead of the Supreme Court judgment on Kano governorship election.
KANO FOCUS reports that the parties signed the pact on Friday at Police headquarters Bompai, Kano
Addressing the leadership of the parties the state Commissioner of Police, Usaini Gumel vowed to take stringent measures against any planned protests or anything that would breach the peace being enjoyed in the state.
The warning came as tension had continued to build in the ancient city in anticipation of what would be the outcome of the judgment.

The police boss said the State Joint Security Committee was in place to make sure that anybody under any guise who went against the signed peace accord regretted his action.
He expressed concern that despite the earlier peace agreement signed by the two parties, some faceless groups were hellbent on creating chaos and uncertainty in the city.
“We will not allow anybody, no matter how highly placed in the society to cause disharmony and violence among Kano citizens who are peace-loving people,” he said.
In their separate remarks, the state NNPP chairman, Hashimu Dungurawa, and the state deputy chairman of the APC, Shehu Maigari, disagreed on who was responsible for what happened after the first and second signing of peace accords in the state.
Dungurawa, who accused the APC members of inciting violence, said his party and indeed the state governor, Abba Yusuf, have been working in tandem with security to ensure that peace prevails in the state.
However, Maigari said everyone was aware of who to blame for the loss of lives and the violent protests in the state, adding that his party had nothing to worry about.
