Trailers carrying travellers from Kano state to Kaduna State on Monday, April 27, were asked to turn back at the state’s boundary with Kaduna state.

The Kaduna State Commissioner of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan said the incident occurred at Sabon Gida village in Ikara Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

Sabon Gida, Kaduna state, shares boundaries with Kiru Local Government Area of Kano State.

Recall that Naijahomebased reported that of the five cases of COVID-19 reported in Kaduna state yesterday, there were Almajiris that came in from Kano state.

So Aruwan noted that they went to the borders between Kano State and Kaduna state to assess the level of compliance with the travel restriction.

Aruwan said the drivers tried to violate the exemption from movement restriction granted to vehicles conveying essential goods.

Samuel told journalists; “As you can see, we are here at the border with our sister state of Kano to assess the level of compliance with the travel restriction, and suddenly intercepted long vehicles carrying passengers into Kaduna State.

“They abused exemption as you can see, we found dozens of people hidden and well-concealed.

“The good thing is they have not entered Kaduna State and we will turn them back to wherever they came from.

“Similarly, we have turned back dozens of passengers, and we will sustain the tempo in compliance with the Kaduna State Government’s directives.

“We are having some problems with those beating security through remote areas with motorcycles but we will go back to the drawing board,” he added.

In another news, we told you that the president in his speech yesterday ordered a total lockdown in Kano state following the increase in the number of strange deaths going on in the state.

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