Zamfara Government on Thursday, May 14, 2020, said all the 44 Almajiri school students sent home by the Kaduna state government have tested negative to COVID-19.
Sulaiman Tunau, the state commissioner of information, disclosed this to journalists in Gusau on Thursday, May 14, 2020.
“Out of the number, five of the Almajiri school students were from Dansadau emirate in Maru local government area while the remaining 39 were from Kwatarkwashi emirate of Bungudu local government.
“We have already handed them over to their parents through Kwatarkwashi and Dansadau emirates,” he added.
Meanwhile, a 14 seater passenger bus carrying teenagers suspected to be Almajiri was on Wednesday evening intercepted at the Patani/Bayelsa border axis of the East-West Road by men of the Bayelsa State Vigilante.
The passengers who claimed to have come from Zamfara State were rounded up by men of the Vigilante, led by its acting chairman, Doubiye Alagba, with other security officers and we’re immediately ordered back when they could not provide reasonable answers about their trip to the state.
It was gathered that operatives of the State Vigilante intercepted the bus after receiving intelligence reports that a bus conveying the teenagers was about making an entrance to the state capital.
