Reps frown at continued detention of Susan Idoko
The House of Representatives has mandated the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control to immediately evaluate the Benue COVID-19 index case and if proven otherwise, should be allowed to go home instead of keeping her in isolation
Unanimously adopting a motion of urgent public importance sponsored by Rep. Blessing Onuh, the House also asks the NCDC to also carry out quality contact tracing and encourage persons who are symptomatic to go for proper clinical evaluation and management with prompt release when they return to their premorbid state.
Onuh informed the House that that one Mrs. Susan Idoko-Okpe, Nee Lawani, a 56 year old woman who is an indigene of Benue State with a dual citizenship from the United Kingdom flew into the country for her mother‘s funeral on the 22nd of March this year, but unfortunately got quarantined by the government for the COVID-19 VIRUS, an assertion backed up by discrepancies in the laboratory results.She said that the said Mrs. Susan Idoko-Okpe.
She said further that the personal information on the laboratory result from the National Centre for Disease Control did not also tally with her personal details.
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