Ayade Tells NCDC To Stop Pressurizing States To Have COVID-19 Cases

Apr 30, 2020 9:13 PM

Governor Benedict Ayade of Cross Rivee State has told the NCDC, the government's agency in responsible for leading the fight against the spread of coronavirus in Nigeria, to desist from pressurizing state to report having Covid-19 cases. He warned that such practice of seemingly forcing states to admit having Covid-19 cases is gravely unethical, and that it cannot be morally justified for anybody to pressurize any state to report having COVID-19, when there is no actual recorded case disease in such state. Ayade said this in response to NCDC allegation against Cross River of not being serious with testing, for Covid-19 in the state.

Chikwe Ihekweazu the DG NCDC, had alleged that Cross River state is still covid-19 free because it has only sent 10 samples to the agency for analysis. But the Cross River government tagged such allegation as a direct attempt by NCDC to pressurized states into reporting having cases of Covid-19, as a way to bring to fulfilments NCDC's prediction through its DG last week, that the disease will spread to all states in Nigeria. This was shocking when NCDC made such prediction, because it's role is actually to help stop the spread of the disease to all states, and not to announce an anticipated spread of disease.

Ayade who stated this in Calabar while reacting, through Dr. Betta Esu to the statement also credited to the Director General of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, that Cross River State is still COVID-19 free, due to very minimal test it has conducted. Interestingly, Covid-19 is not a disease that can stay in the body with showing symptoms, which also have devastating effects on the body. So could people have Covid-19 that will be waiting to be ducted, before showing its effect on the body of the affected person? Certainly not, this is where NCDC is on the wrong and probably working towards a yet to be known agenda. As Ayade said, there is no way Covid-19 cases can be covered up, because it is a deadly disease; but NCDC should force state to admitting having Covid-19 cases.

Ayade revealed that the the federal government only sent 50 test kits to Cross River state with a population of 4.5million people. So one wonders how 4.5million people can be tested with only 50 kits so far supplied by NCDC to the State.

Frankly looking at NCDC mannerism and methodologically, one is left to clearly suspect some hidden agenda by NCDC, not yet known to Nigerians. Some facts that back this up are; Covid-19 is not a disease outbreak in Nigeria, the coronavirus is not airborne, the disease is gravely harmful to the body system, it manifest clear symptoms after 14 days of contacting the disease, and the disease is spread by one on one contact, which must includes the release of substance (saliva or mucus) from the infected person to his/her contact. With these, and considering that Buhari had admitted that the coronavirus cases in Lagos and Abuja, before the first lockdown, had 92% of the contact traced and isolated; the question now is how did Coronavirus get into other states when there was no contact?

Another disturbing reality is when Chikwe Ihekweazu told Nigerians that 90% of people who recovered from Covid-19, did not have any medical intervention. This could only mean they never had Covid-19 as was claimed by NCDC. Be that as it may, the question still remains, why is NCDC fighting so hard to get Covid-19 cases reported in all states of the nation? This is also in line with the reasoning of Ayade, who told NCDC not to pressurize states to reporting having Covid-19 cases.