COVID-19 Boundary Closure: Ganduje Monitors Compliance, Caught Defaulters, Orders for Their Arrest, Prosecution

Against the backdrop of COVID-19 and in an effort to have
total compliance with the directive given by the Kano state government, of
boundary closure which started from Friday 27th March, by 12 midnight, governor
Abdullahi Umar Ganduje was in boundary town linking Kano state and Kaduna
state, Monday, where he caught defaulters who defied the directive and were
coming to Kano state.

The defaulters caught were in separate trips in 9 different
types of vehicles. There were 2 Tippers, 2 Trucks, Two Buses and 1 Coaster car.
They were all sighted at different locations of the road coming to Kano,
defying all orders given by the state government.

They were forced to turn back to where they were coming
from. He ordered for the immediate arrest of all of them. Which he also ordered
for their prosecution.

Asking one of the drivers of the trucks with a very frowning
face, showing how unhappy he was (Ganduje), after given directive and some
unpatriotic ones decided to default order, he said “Where are you coming
from with these people? Who asked you to bring them here? Aren’t you not aware
that such kind movement is banned!

While talking to journalists after inspecting the scenario
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
Abuja. 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.”

He disclosed that they were using smaller routes when
approaching blocked areas. “They then pass all the check points 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 tell 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
Kaduna-Abuja axis.