Drama in Badore area of Ajah, Lagos State, as residents have been alerted to stay indoors over unconfirmed reports of the imminent spread of the COVID-19 in the axis.
According to eye witness reports, a man died of the virus on Thursday and his family have refused to allow the NCDC officials take his body away.
The minister of information, Lai Mohammed has said that the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), will manage the burial of coronavirus patients, but according to Twitter user @Nerdy_Dopey, the family of the deceased didn’t want that.
It was reported that as the NCDC wanted to take the body of the victim for burial, his family members with the aid of hoodlums who dragged the body with NCDC officials who were kitted up in PPEs.
He wrote below;
“So members of the @NCDCgov are currently at Badore, Ajah to transfer a #COVID19 patient to an isolation center but they were too late. The man had already died. Now the real case began, custodianship of his body.
The man’s family & area boys are LITERALLY dragging the man’s body. They want to bury their dead &
@NCDCgov want to take possession of his body so they handle it rightly.
It’s still ongoing right now around the Jetty area roundabout at Badore.
While the members of the @NCDCgov had their PPE on, the crowd were in no way protected and they were dragging the dead body like it was a game of thug of war.🤦🏽♂️
The number of infected people with #COVID19 is about to triple at Badore, Ajah.
His family and all the people around that place should be quarantined.”
Nigerian Fact checker, Adejumo Kabir has however claimed that the community ruler as at press time cannot confirm the reports but a little crowd and outcry was spotted in the Badore estate on Thursday afternoon.
“As at the time of writing this, the community is peaceful. It is however important that people take necessary precautions.
This is not to say the report is fake, further findings are ongoing and the public will be duly informed.” Kabir tweeted
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