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General News of Saturday, 9 May 2020

Source: www.mynigeria.com

FG to re-engage Kogi State on COVID-19

Ehanire Osagie Ehanire Osagie

The Federal Government has said that it needs to re-engage with Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State so as to enable officials of the Nigerian Center for Disease Control, NCDC, to boost the states testing capacity.

This was disclosed by the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, while speaking at the daily press briefing organized by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19.

The minister made this known in reaction to the return of NCDC officials from Kogi State following a disagreement with the governor.

He said: “We tried to send a team of the Ministry of Health and the NCDC into Kogi yesterday but there were some differences there to processes.

“This will mean that we need to re-engage the state governor again and work with him and his team to create the conditions to which the Ministry of Health and the NCDC can complete their job.

“The agreement we had with them after discussions with the Governors (Kogi and Cross River) is that we should send a delegation to the states just to validate the facts.

“Of course, we need that for our national records and to be able to report to the world what the situation is in our country because by now the whole world knows that we do not have any record from these two states.”