{"id":73019,"date":"2020-04-27T19:21:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T18:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=73019"},"modified":"2020-04-27T19:21:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T18:21:35","slug":"kwankwaso-says-corovirus-responsible-for-multiple-deaths-in-kano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/kwankwaso-says-corovirus-responsible-for-multiple-deaths-in-kano\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwankwaso says Corovirus responsible for multiple deaths in Kano"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has alleged that COVID-19 is responsible for the deaths of senior citizens in the state.<\/div>\n
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He said this in a letter written to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), a copy of which was obtained via his Twitter handle.<\/p>\n

A copy of the letter was also shared by the Personal Assistant to the President, Bashir Ahmad, who accused Kwankwaso of playing politics with COVID-19.<\/p>\n

Part of the letter read, \u201cPermit me, Mr. President, to draw your attention to the spike in mystery deaths among the aged population in Kano State in the last couple of weeks. Hundreds of funerals have been recorded in all the cemeteries of the eight metropolitan local governments alone.<\/p>\n

Looking at the pattern elsewhere in the world where senior citizens with preexisting conditions were the main fatalities of the novel coronavirus, we are concerned that the inability to conduct tests in the state to determine the status of these senior citizens might be responsible for their death.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are even more concerned that if sincere and efficient machinery is not urgently put in place to understand and mitigate against this, more lives of innocent senior citizens will be lost.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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