The Kaduna government has predicted coronavirus epidemic in the state if the order on lockdown including social distancing was not strictly adhered to by residents.
The state taskforce on COVID-19 raised the alarm through the Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan who relayed the story of a gate-man, who is infected with the virus and came in contact with over 300 residents of the state.
Aruwan in a viral video of him addressing security men, said the state is incapable of handling coronavirus cases of epidemic magnitude and warned that the only way to ensure the dark cloud evaporate is total compliance with the lockdown order.
According to him: “Nobody should come out and say they are government official and start intimidating you. Stop them who so ever and force them to identify themselves. If we dont do what we are doing, we will end up with a disaster.
“Our risk assessment is 57,000. So if we have 57,000 testing positive what are we going to do? We don’t have the equipment and facilities or hospitals that could take care of such number.
“And if we do what we are doing, we will end up with at least two thousand plus.
“Imagine the guy that came from Lagos, he is a gateman from kawo. Entered a commercial vehicle from Lagos to Kaduna, and he must have infected so many people. Now we can’t trace about 300 persons from his own family and people in area in Mando.”
