Kano State will on Monday receive a mobile testing centre with the capacity of testing 400 people daily donated by the richest man in Africa, Alhaji Aliko Dangote.
Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje disclosed this during media briefing of State Task Force on COVID-19, held at Africa House, Government, Kano, in the presence of the Task Force Chairman, the Deputy Governor, Dr Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna and other top government personalities.
“As we are targeting more Testing Centres in the state, the richest man in Africa, Alhaji Aliko Dangote is donating Mobile Testing Centre with the capacity of testing 400 people daily. The facility is coming to Kano in the next two days, by Monday,” he said.
Rising cases of positive COVID-19 patients, the governor said, “…is a thing of great concern. Though we are aware that with the bouncing back of the Aminu Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital Testing Centre with the capacity of 88 samples per day, and the coming up of another Testing Centre at Bayero University, Kano, with the capacity of 20 samples per day, would mean another rise in the identified positive cases.”
On the price increase of essential commodities like sugar and salt, governor Ganduje said “I had a meeting with Alhaji Aliko Dangote and Alhaji Abdussamad Isyaka Rabi’u, they all assured that they didn’t increase a Kobo in the prices of their products. This means that any hike in the prices of sugar, salt and other commodities will not be tolerated by the state.”
He warned further that, “It is as a result of this that I directed the State Anti-Corruption Commission to be very vigilant and monitor sells at points of sales of such commodities. Whoever is found increasing any price will have his or her products confiscated and whatever is confiscated will be put into our palliative programme to be distributed to the public free.”
Ganduje vowed that, the recently signed COVID-19 and other infectious diseases Law will work on whoever tries to test the might of government, maintaining that, “We have provisions that take care of such behaviours in the Law.”
