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| SHEHU SANI |
Since it recorded its index COVID-19 case
in April, Kano has been hit by a wave of strange deaths.
The state recorded the highest number of
cases on Thursday and Friday, bringing the total figure to 311 cases.
In a statement on Saturday, Shehu Sani, a former senator who represented Kaduna Central, accused
the political and religious leaders in Kano state of fuelling the health crisis
by undermining medical realities.
“The situation in Kano is an avoidable
creeping tragedy. In times of health emergencies, religious leaders in Kano
have a history of promoting dangerous myths, hazardous superstitions and
fictional narratives,” the former senator said.
“The political leadership in Kano is
tragically bending towards the lunacy of the mythical, anti science religious
clerics thereby setting the mass of the populace in the harms way.
“From Polio to Coronavirus, the north and
particularly Kano has historically become a breeding ground and a harbinger of
infectious and contagious diseases as a direct result of the misrepresentation
of religion to undermine medical realities or the concoction and dissemination
of bogus conspiracy theories and conjectures.
“Mass illiteracy and ignorance in Kano
fertilizes, catalyzes and aggravates the COVID-19 situation in the state.
“The most efficient and effective way of
inciting the mass of the people in Kano or most parts of the North against any
idea, policy, substance or matter or against any science, technology, food or
drug, is to induct or recruit religious leaders to rebuke or denounce it as a
conspiratorial plot to reduce the number of Muslims, and it will be
wholeheartedly believed by a gullible mass.”
Sani said the almajiri kids forcefully
returned to their villages because of the pandemic may come back as bandits or
insurgents.
“Interstate Almajiri exchange program will
not solve the Almajiri problems in the North. The strategy of forceful
‘deportation’ of the Almajiri to their villages or their states of origins
amounts to hiding our dirty laundry instead of cleaning them,” he said.
“The Almajiri you refused to educate and
integrate but choose to forcefully take out to the villages, will return as
bandits or insurgents.
“Northern Politicians and elites toxic
strategy of exploitation of religion to rise to power or preserve it has
continuously undermined the region socio economic development.”
Coronavirus Realtime Updates
- +2382170Confirmed
- +1068Deaths
- +32351Recovered
Data as of 2020-05-02 13:44:58 UTC
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