VIDEO: Dubai returnees protest, insist commissioner lied about cause of colleague’s death

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Returnees from UAE came out in protest against officials of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.

They alleged that since their arrival, the NCDC had not visited only for them to be told that one of them had died from COVID-19. According to The Punch, one of the returnees who explained that the deceased recently had surgery in Dubai, but lost his life when the government refused to take him to the hospital to continue recuperating.“The Lagos Health Commissioner came to visit us and we challenged him for saying that one of us died yesterday. What happened was that one of us had surgery in Dubai and he returned in a wheelchair.

“Instead of taking him to a hospital because he was in critical condition, they decided to keep him in the isolation centre with us for two days and his condition got worse. He was then taken to a hospital where he eventually died. But the commissioner told the public that it was COVID-19 that killed him.

“When we challenged the commissioner, he said he was misquoted by the media. We brought out our phones and told him to say it while we record, but he refused.”

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