Real mission, location of 15 Chinese medical team disclosed by FG

Following the recent claim of the Minister of Health about the previously presumed Chinese doctors, and the reaction of the main opposition party (PDP), the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has disclosed the whereabout of the Chinese and their mission in the country.

Aregbesola disclosed that the doctors are in the country to help in building and equipping COVID-19 isolation centres.

He made this disclosure during the Presidential Task Force, PTF, daily briefing on COVID-19 in Abuja, on Tuesday. He also added that they are in the country on the bill of China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation, CCECC.

Aregbesola said the Chinese experts worked at the Idu COVID-19 isolation centre and the Dome project both in Abuja.

According to Aregbesola: “Indeed 15 Chinese nationals came into Nigeria on April 8. They are here on the bill of the CCECC, a Chinese company doing some works for us in Nigeria in conjunction with some Nigerian companies they agreed to support us in the effort to respond to the pandemic.

“At Idu isolation centre in Abuja, they participated in retrofitting and equipping the isolation centre. They equally worked on the Dome project, that was handled by the NNPC Construction in conjunction with ThisDay.

“So, those are the locations in which they came to work. Both in retrofitting the Iju facility and installing critical essential medical equipment.”

Recently, alarms have been raised by concern Nigerians about the real mission of the Chinese nationals and their whereabouts.