ZAMFARA STATE GOV DENIES ATTRIBUTING MENINGITIS OUTBREAK TO GOD'S PUNISHMENT

Zamfara State Governor, Dr. Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar,has denied attributing the outbreak of the deadly Cerebral Spinal Meningitis, CSM, to God’s punishment arising from fornication and other forms of disobedience to God.

The governor was on Tuesday quoted to have said that the outbreak of Type C Cerebro Spinal Meningitis in some parts of the country was God’s way of showing his anger against Nigerians for turning their back on Him.

Yari was quoted as having said this when he spoke with State House correspondents in Abuja after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari.

But Yari have denied saying so.

In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Public Enlightenment, Ibrahim Magaji Dosara, Yari said while he lamented the paucity of appropriate vaccines to confront the outbreak of meningitis in his state, he equally admonished Nigerians to move closer to God and plead for His mercy to avert further infectious diseases and other health crisis in the state and Nigeria.

The statement said: “No doubt, as a God-fearing man and a Muslim, the governor believes in the powers of Allah to inflict whatever punishment He decides on the human race. However, the governor who spoke in Hausa had a particular audience in mind when he spoke to the BBC Hausa reporter.

“The governor added, for example, that fornication ‘should not spread so much in society, that it becomes common place and if that happens, Allah promises to inflict, on its perpetrators (people) a sickness that would have no cure’.

“Let it be known too that the governor still insists that all diseases come from Allah and that at no point in his interaction with the reporters did he insinuate that Allah was punishing Nigerians, but instead drew from the teachings of great Islamic traditions to buttress the point he was trying to convey.”

Hehehe..He had to just come out and deny/ clarify after Sanusi and Ben Bruce came for him

*If na you Nko?will you agree?