Former Emir Of Kano – Following the alleged mysterious deaths in Kano state which has reportedly claimed over 600 lives in one week, Nigerians have taken to social media to express worry over alleged mysterious deaths in Kano.
Reacting to the mysterious killing of the people in the state, some Nigerians linked the killing to dethronement and banishment of former Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi II.
Kano State, the largest industrial center in the North West part of Nigeria is passing through a dark cloud in recent time as the State’s Capital and ancient city of Kano loses more elites to mysterious deaths amidst coronavirus pandemic.
However, the Governor of the state, Umar Ganduje and the commissioner for health have come out severally to deny reports that claims the mysterious deaths in Kano are connected the novel coronavirus disease.
The mysterious deaths in Kano had gained less attention until last Friday when it began to claim lives of prominent people in the State. On that fateful Friday, Prof Aliyu Dikko of the Department of Physiology, Bayero University Kano succumbed to an ‘unknown illness’. Barely two days after the don’s death, another professor of the Department of Mass Communication at BUK, Balarabe Maikaba, also succumbed to the ‘strange’ illness.
Also, last Saturday, another prominent academic in Kano State, Dr Sabo Kurawa, died after a brief illness, Kurawa was said to be one of the pioneering founders of the Department of Sociology and a former Deputy Vice-Chancellor at BUK.
Prof Ibrahim Ayagi, a foremost economist in the country also died of a ‘strange illness’ in Kano last week, he was said to be a prominent face during the Structural Adjustment Programme debates in the mid-1980s.
Another prominent person who lost his life in the past few days in Kano was Alhaji Dahiru Rabiu, who was a former Grand Khadi (judge of the Sharia Court of Appeal) in the state.
Other public figures who have succumbed to the strange illness in the past few days in the state includes Dr Musa Umar Gwarzo; Mallam Nasir Maikano Bichi; Musa Tijjani (Editor of Kano-based Triumph Newspaper); and Adamu Isyaku Dal, a former Executive Secretary of the State Universal Basic Education Board; Alhaji Salisu Lado, Hajiya Shamsiyya Mustapha, Hajiyaj Nene Umma, Alhaji Garba Sarki Fagge, Dr Nasiru Maikano Bichi, and Ado Gwanja’s mother.
Not satisfied, Kano ‘strange illness’ gulped a bigger one yesterday when the Emir of Rano, one of the newly created Emirates in Kano state, Alhaji Tafida Abubakar Ila II died few hours after he was rushed to hospital over a critical illness.
Barely 24 hours after the Emir’s death, several claims are being attributed as the cause of his death. A lot of people who reacted to the news of his demise on social media believed the cause of his death and others recorded in Kano are traditional consequences that follows the dethronement and banishment of of former Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi II, See few reactions below.
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