Coronavirus may have claimed a traditional ruler in Nigeria.
He is the Emir of Kaura-Namoda in Zamfara State, Alhaji Mohammed Ahmad Asha, who died in the early hours of Sunday of suspected coronavirus-related complications.
He was 71.
The Publicity Secretary for the Control and Prevention of COVID-19 in the state, Alhaji Mustafa Jafaru Kaura, said the monarch had been in isolation at the Yariman Bakura Specialist Hospital, Gusau for three days ago.
Mustafa said that his blood sample had been sent to Abuja for the COVID-19 test, explaining, however, that “the result is still being awaited”.
He said the remains of the late Emir were still in the hospital waiting for burial by officials of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.
Until his appointment, he was an accountant, Auditor, and Director Finance at Kaura Namoda, Gusau, Bukkuyum local government councils respectively, and a Village head of Nasarawar Mai-layi in the year 1975.
He became senior District Head (Chief) of Kaura Namoda in the year 2000, a position he held until his appointment as the second Emir of Kaura Namoda
