Kogi State Government has alleged that the Federal Ministry of Health and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) brought machines that had been programmed to record positive Covid-19 cases only to the Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja.
Commissioner for Information, Kingsley Fanwo, in a statement on Wednesday, said sample collection materials had been infected with Covid-19.
The statement read: “Our people should be careful in accessing health care at FMC, Lokoja for now. The institution has become an incubation point for breeding false Covid-19 cases.
“Both the Federal Ministry of Health and the NCDC are not trusted and we have every reason not to ever believe their commercial efforts against Covid-19.”
The NCDC announced that Kogi recorded its third case on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the state government has created mobile courts to try violators of the lockdown order in the Kabba/Bunu Local Government Area.
Governor Yahaya Bello placed the local government on lockdown last week following the confirmation of two cases of Covid-19.
