Another elder and a community leader in Kano state, Isa Hashim, has kicked the bucket. Hashim, who is a retired professor, held the title of Jarman Kano in the Kano emirate council. Premium Times reports that the 86-year-old died on Sunday, May 3, at his home, after a short illness, according to his daughter, Dija Hashim.
Although details of his illness were not reealed, one of his family member said Mr Hashim’s health collapsed following the deaths of some of his childhood friends in quick succession.
Hashim was a retired professor of political science, administrator and author. He had matriculated into the then Kano Native Authority in 1948 as a first school leaver and arosed to the position of a permanent secretary before he retired in 1979. He had joined Bayero University Kano (BUK) when he retired and taught for many years. Since the news of mass deaths in Kano surfaced, the number of mortality has continued to flow. Hashim's death is the latest among the hundreds reported in Kano.
However,The government has said the deaths are not COVID-19 related. Moreoer, a former executive secretary of National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Prof Usman Yusuf, recently intimate his worry over the rising cases of coronavirus in Kano and reports of hundreds of "strange deaths" recorded in the state.
Moreover,Yusuf urge the state governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, of his playful reaction to the situation in Kano.
Addition to this, the professor stated;
"We are in trouble in Nigeria because if Kano goes down, the whole of Nigeria goes with it, as well as Africa. Kano is already going down, hundreds are dying every day; hundreds are dying every day and there is no solution,"
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