Kano orders workers to stay at home, bans intra-city movement
The Kano state executive council has directed civil servants to stay off from work for 14 days as from March 25 as part of efforts to safeguard the lives of the people of the state and prevent the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
A statement signed by the Commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba on the outcome of the special session of the council meeting held at the Government House, Kano, however, said that essential service workers to be identified by the government are exempted from the stay at home order.
The commissioner explained that the council approved the measures to ensure prevention and containment of the virus through contact in government offices across the state.
Malam Garba said that while the state is yet to record a single case of the deadly disease, as part of measures to curtail the spread of the virus, the council has from Wednesday, banned the inflow of large capacity buses into the state.
He said this was in consideration of the risk involved in the mode of operations of the buses that involve stuffing of passengers and the disorganized sitting arrangement in the buses.
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The state government, the statement added, is working tirelessly to ensure the virus does not find its way into the state and if it does, the government is prepared to control and manage it.
The commissioner urged residents to ensure adherence to health instructions released by the federal and the state’s ministry of health on how to prevent the disease as well as ensure personal hygiene.
Other resolutions of the council include the release of N21. 41million and N17, 114 million for the conduct of the 2020 interim joint matriculation examination at the College of Education and Preliminary Studies and Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso College of Arts and Remedial Studies respectively.
He said the council also approved N15, 561, 200 million and N11, 440, 800 million for the year 2020 NECO and 2020 NABTED examinations in respect of qualified candidates in the state.
