by By Elijah Ugani – Calabar
Drama ensued yesterday as officials of the Nigerian Center for Disease Control NCDC, left Kogi State after they refused to be tested for corona virus.
The delegation was sent to boost the capacity of the state in the fight against covid 19.
The team returned to Abuja after Governor Yahaya Bello asked them to be isolated and be ready to be tested.
A statement by the Kogi state Commissioner for Information, Mr. Kingsley Fanwo, inquired if NCDC has something hidden.
The statement reads in parts “NCDC will have a lot to explain as to why its officials refused to be tested for covid 19. How can we be sure of their status? What are their fears? Why did NCDC send people who are afraid of tests to our state? What was their intentions? The officials that came has done an integrity blow to the works of the NCDC. Is there something they are hiding? It is high time NCDC open up and apologize to the good people of Kogi state. How will they encourage people to do test and their own officials are afraid of test”
Recall also that Kogi and Cross River States are the only two states in Nigeria without confirmed cases of corona virus.
