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Yobe State governor, Mai Mala Buni has discredited reports of Covid-19 related deaths in the state, urging Nigerians to pay no attention to contrary reports.
An online rumour has been circulating that scores of COVID-19 related deaths have been reported in the past few days in the state, but the Director-General Press and Media Affairs to Yobe state governor, Mamman Mohammed, in a statement said, it can be recalled that Yobe state was the first in Nigeria to voluntarily submit a suspected case of COVID-19 for the test, whose result eventually turned out negative.
He clarified that Yobe recorded its first case just last week, 30th April 2020, and there is no officially declared COVID-19 related death in the state, yet.
The statement reads; “Our attention has been drawn to an online report alleging COVID-19 related deaths in Yobe state.
We had expected the publishers to cross-check their facts and reflect our position to balance the story, he added.
Debunking the news that also claimed that His Excellency Governor Mai Mala Buni was in Abuja while his people were dying; Governor Mai Mala Buni had not travelled out of the state for six weeks until when President Buhari invited him to Abuja to discuss security matters for just three days and had since been back. Therefore, he was not outside the state nor coordinating the affairs of the state away in Abuja as earlier rumoured.
He thereby declared that the Administration maintaining an open-door policy, hence the media is implored to always contact the state government for clarity on every issue/fact-finding before going to the press.
Despite the non-existing case, the state has constituted a COVID-19 committee, established three isolation centres equipped with ventilators and all necessary equipment, Mamman said.
Reported by: Fatimah Oyesanmi
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