Founder of BUA Group, Abdul Samad Rabiu,
BUA Foundation has donated the sum of N2 billion, five ambulances and 20 Hilux vehicles to Kano State government as its contribution to stem the spread of COVID-19 that has posed a serious challenge to the state, just as the state plans to embark on house-to-house collection of samples.
Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje said the state government will judiciously utilise the vehicles to curtail the menace of COVID-19 in the state.
Speaking during the donation, former minister of external affairs, Dr Aliyu Idi Hong, who spoke on behalf BUA Foundation chairman, Alhaji Abdusamad Isyaku Rabiu, noted that COVID-19 has become a very major challenge not only in Nigeria but all over the world.
He said the chairman has donated the sum of N2 billion for the control of COVID-19 to Kano State and committed N1 billion to Lagos State.
According to him, in total so far, the chairman through the BUA Foundation has spent almost about N7 billion on materials, cash support, food palliatives to communities in the country to alleviate the suffering of downtrodden masses during this trying period the country is passing through.
He said, “I should tell you that these vehicles and ambulances are to support the state government’s good effort in controlling this COVID-19 pandemic.”
He further said that the chairman was willing to do to support the state to urgently curtail the pandemic.
In his response, the state governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, said they were happy for the donation noting that it has come at the right time because according to him, transportation is very essential in conveying those saddle with the responsibility of taking care of victims of COVID-19.
Ganduje said, “There is no doubt we have opened collection centres in all the 44 local government areas of the state. For the distant local governments, there is one collection centre each. But for the eight metropolitan local governments, we are opening about 100 collection centres so that we can feed the laboratories at testing centres with enough samples each day.
“There is no doubt we have to increase our capacity in collecting samples, and it would probably lead to house-to-house in the collection of samples. The more we collect samples, the more we understand the seriousness of the situation and put in place how to curtail the spread of the coronavirus.
“So in short, we have all that it takes at the moment in order to fight the pandemic. We are building our capacity with the help of technical teams from the Presidential Task Force in Abuja. We will swing into action by tomorrow (Tuesday) as some policy statements would be made in respect of the new fight against the coronavirus.”
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