Officials of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, have reportedly fled Kogi State shortly after Governor Yahaya Bello’s directive, asking them to go into isolation at the state quarantine centre for fourteen days.

Governor Bello had ordered the leader of the officials of the National Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Dr Andrew Noah to go into isolation at the state quarantine centre for fourteen days or leave the state immediately if they refused.

The governor gave the order Thursday night when the visiting NCDC official shook hands with the state Director of Protocol while exchanging microphone after speaking to introduce his team to the audience.

The governor said that the step was to ensure that the laid down procedure of checkmating the scourge by NCDC is strictly followed.

Bello while addressing the officials said in part, “Our people are adequately sensitised in all languages and locations throughout the state about Covid-19. As much as practicable Kogites now observe social distancing, handwashing and other protocols for prevention of infection.

“The Kogi State Ministry of Health has deployed health personnel to all the 239 Wards of the State, 2 focal persons per ward, who constantly sensitize the people on the dangers of the virus, communicate news or even rumours of suspected cases to the incident committee or task force for investigation and also assist in contact tracing.

“We have set up 3 modern Isolation/ Containment Centres in the State having a combined capacity of 130-bed spaces. These facilities currently lie unused. It is our prayer and our determination that these isolation centres will remain vacant until the pandemic is over.

“We have provided emergency and toll-free numbers for the general public to call in and report suspected cases of Covid-19 at no cost whatsoever. We have also fielded many of such calls. All of them turned out to be false alarms upon investigation and did not meet the criteria from the NCDC for cases which should be sampled for testing.

“In the circumstances, we cannot manufacture cases in order to be counted among the states which have recorded same. As a Governor I hear there are ‘benefits’ for having Covid-19 cases in your state, well, I am not interested”.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/05/covid-19-ncdc-officials-flee-kogi-following-gov-bellos-isolation-directive/

This is laughable. Mission aborted.

Laughable. Mission not accomplished

This man is still toying with the lives of people.

D NCDC shld jus leave Kogi alone, it's as easy as dat. If d governor days he has things under control and his app is testing Kogi ppl, den dey shld leave him and his state alone.

For this Governor, he has chased the team with evil intentions from his state. Well, to be honest, the effect of the virus can never be hidden for long should it be present. While no one wishes there should be cases in Kogi, we are also aware that as a confluence state it is expected that with our poor border control, some fleeing residents of states with high numbers of confirmed cases would have filtered into Kogi. The real result of all these grandstanding will be out on PDF soon. Hopefully, since it concerns the lives of people u won't politicize it. I see nothing brilliant this Governor has put in place for prevention. His null hypothesis is that there is no case but he doesn't want any independent body to settle in and get their suspicion verified

That's because they know what Isolation centres are all about.

Why are the ncdc officials running away from their homes?No be una build the isolation centre?

“In the circumstances, we cannot manufacture cases in order to be counted among the states which have recorded same. As a Governor I hear there are ‘benefits’ for having Covid-19 cases in your state, well, I am not interested”.

If there happen to be a case, NCDC would be alerted..

A pregnant woman cannot hide her stomach.

He is the Governor.....
He works with his advisers....


He gave a globally recommended directives in his domain....

You ran away....
Abandoning your official duties..
There by creating suspicion around you.

NCDC who are you fooling?

OMG! I can't stop laughing. This is a typical example of leaders not obeying their own laws. NCDC is just a corrupt money chasing agency like the police. They went to Kogi to find or create a positive case by any means possible but the crafty Yahaya Bello was three steps ahead of them.

Shelumiel:
This man is still toying with the lives of people.

for how long? did want to manufacture corona virus index when their no one? or the governor should go and tie somebody down like Benue state did? no lockdown in kogi and they are not recording corona deaths. must every state record corona virus in Nigeria? if kogi people are dying from corona virus, the people will raised alarm like that of kano.

getting to two month, the governor cannot hide the number of death in his state, due to corona.

abu12:


for how long?

From the time he assumed office

Rofo rofo fight