Workers in six restaurants in Kano state have been tested positive for Hepatitis B, as such all the affected eateries and bakeries have been closed by the Kano State Consumer Protection Council.
The Acting Managing Director of the Council, Dr. Baffa Babba Dan’agundi disclosed this at a press conference in the state on Sunday, adding that measures have been put in place to prosecute violators of a directive stipulating a clear Health Certificate before operating restaurants.
“Six restaurant workers have tested positive to Hepatitis B. They were just from three restaurants and we have over 3,000 restaurants in the state. We asked the operators to send their workers to laboratories for tests and get a health certificate. We gave them the grace of seven days which has elapsed but the leadership pleaded for an extension.
“The council had given a seven days ultimatum to owners of restaurants, bakeries, and water producing factories among others to produce a certificate of health and at the expiration ordered the immediate closure of those who failed to produce the certificate.
“Why we ordered the closure of restaurants, bakeries, and others without health certificates is because aside from COVID-19, Hepatitis B is one of the easiest communicable diseases around, ” he stated.
Dan’agundi also said the council succeeded in confiscating fake goods worth N1 billion, arrested 13 while an arrest warrant has been gotten for the 9 still on the run.
He indicted BUA and Dangote drivers for allegedly using their trucks to transport or smuggle fake goods into the state.
“Within my three months at the helm of affairs at the council, we have confiscated fake goods worth almost N1 billion. Our warehouse is filled to capacity and we now about to open our second warehouse. We made a seizure worth N500 million of expired cigarettes, we make seizures daily including weekends. Large chunks of the seizures were made in Sabon Gari and Singer markets, ” he said.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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