Politician’s driver who tested positive for COVID-19 on the run

As Nigeria Centre for Decease Control (NCDC) keeps addressing Nigerians on the need to isolate themselves and get tested once they’ve had contact with anybody that tests positive for COVID-19, it was gathered that the driver to a gubernatorial candidate in 2019 election in Niger State took to his heels after the politician tested positive in one of the states in southwest.

The politician, whose name was withheld, tested positive and it was essential that the driver gets tested as well, but he sneaked out of the isolation centre and fled to Bida in Niger State with his current where about unknown. This has sparked unrest amidst the government circles in the state.

Confirming the development to newsmen, Niger state Commissioner for Health and Hospital Services, Mohammed Makunsidi said that the man fled the isolation centre before he was tested and that the search for him has been intensified. He added that officials of the ministry has been sent out to look for the man and he’s meant to be taken back to the isolation centre in the southwestern state.

In his words he said, “We heard of the arrival of a driver or somebody that is said to have tested positive for coronavirus and is being managed at an isolation centre. We heard that he escaped to Bida, so we are after him now.

“Our members of the state task force on Covid-19 and officials of Ministry of Health and Hospital Services are in Bida area of the state to locate him and make sure he does what the Nigeria Centre for Decease Control has asked him to do.”