By Olalekan Bilesanmi


Frontline politician, Alhaji Buba Galadima, in this interview, speaks on mystery deaths in Kano State amid raging coronavirus pandemic.


The deaths are not new to me. However, it doesn’t matter the figure, whether it is a million or just one person, it is human life. We should never play politics with human life.



America can go to war when one American is treated unjustly. I have lost a teacher to these mystery deaths, Professor Jibril Ayagi taught me about 50 years ago. He taught me in 1971 at Ahmadu Bello University, ABU. And he was a godfather to my children.


Now, two of the children are doctors. He died in a circumstance that no one is able to explain. When there is a pattern of deaths like this, any responsible government, whether local, state or federal, must quickly move to investigate because the deaths have become so rampant; from morning to evening, they are burying corpses.


It means there is something beyond the ordinary. Almost two months back, I prayed to God that this issue of Covid-19 should not get to Kano, Maiduguri and Ibadan because of the population of these cities.


And, more importantly, because of the nonchalant attitude of our people. With the way we are, you can never say there is no part of this country that does not have the virus. If the tests are carried out in all the nooks and crannies of Nigeria, you will be surprised about the number of people that would test positive to the virus.


All the Kano government was going initially was to get money from the Federal Government. They didn’t envisage it would turn out this way and that is why I think the Federal Government should move in quickly, take over the responsibility from the state government because it is not every state governor that can act like Governor Sanwo-Olu in Lagos.