Hamza Malikawa, a former assistant commissioner of police said to be diabetic has died on Monday in Kano.
His death was confirmed by Malikawa’s younger brother, Rilwanu who is also a Media Officer of Kano Pillars FC.
Rilwanu said;
He was admitted to the hospital. He died Monday. He was a diabetic patient.
His death is the latest among increasing deaths in Kano in the past few weeks.
Malikawa’s death comes less than 24 hours after an Assistant Commissioner of Police, Atiku Nagodi, also died in Kano State.
Nagodi until his death was a squadron commander of 9 police mobile force.
The Kano Police Public Relations Office, DSP Abdullahi Haruna, who confirmed Nagodi’s death said he died at the age of 54.
The PPRO added that he did not die of coronavirus but of protracted illness.
There has been a wave of strange deaths in the state, which Dr Nasiru Sani Gwarzo, the leader of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 recently linked to the outbreak of the disease in the country.
The reason for the deaths came after President Buhari gave a matching order to the Task Force to unravel the cause of the mysterious deaths in Kano and to also contain the spread of the virus in the state.
Since the first coronavirus case in the state in April, over 600 persons had died mysteriously and all deaths were initially ascribed to malaria and typhoid by government officials.
However, in a sudden turn of events, Gwarzo has now declared that tests carried out establishes that COVID-19 is the cause of the deaths and not malaria or typhoid as earlier suggested.
