By Eric Olusesan
NCDC Officials have reportedly fled Kogi State shortly after Governor Yahaya Bello’s directed that they should to go into isolation at the state quarantine centre for fourteen days.
Governor Bello issued the directives on Thursday night that the leader of the officials of the National Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Dr Andrew Noah go into isolation at the state quarantine centre for fourteen days or leave the state immediately if they refused.
The governor said that the step was to ensure that the laid down procedure of checkmating the scourge by NCDC is strictly followed by the state.
He said that the step was to ensure that the laid down procedure of checkmating the scourge by NCDC is strictly followed. The National Centre for Disease Control, NCDC has sent a delegation of rapid response team to ascertain the true status of Kogi as a Covid-19 free state.
The NCDC team was led by Dr Noah Andrew who had arrived the Lugard House seat of the state government to present a letter titled “Deployment of rapid response squad to help in fighting Covid-19,” said that the mission of the centre was to provide logistics to all states of the Federation of which Kogi cannot be left out.
He said that two members of the team would be left behind to help the state and support her efforts of the state government already in place, “We are here to support the state in shipping swab and samples and ascertain the preparedness of the state in fighting Covid-19”.
Dr Andrew urged Government and people to observe social distancing and use facemask at all times as part of the measures to fight the scourge.