None of my commissioners infected with COVID-19, says Akwa Ibom gov

Udom Emmanuel, governor of Akwa ibom, says none of his commissioners has contracted coronavirus.

The governor made this known at the banquet hall of government house, Uyo, during a media parley with selected journalists in the state, on Monday.

According to Emmanuel, the reports that nine or more commissioners are secretly receiving treatment for COVID-19 is a “figment of the imagination of its perpetrators”.

“Ordinarily, at this time, I wouldn’t have loved to bring out all my commissioners to this parley, I did that to show the world that what they have been reading or hearing are untrue. All my commissioners are here, healthy and strong,” the governor said.

About the state’s preparedness against the pandemic, he said long before the state recorded its index case, Akwa Ibom enjoyed world class health care system through the “ingenuity and proactiveness of his administration”.

“The covid-19 pandemic did not meet Akwa Ibom State unprepared. Hospitals in the state were already equipped with state-of-the-art facilities and digitized long before the first case of corona virus was mentioned in Nigeria,” he said.

“We have 407 Doctors and 2000 Nurses already on ground in the health sector of the state. There were emergency operating centers already put in place at the Infectious Disease Hospital, IDH, Ikot Ekpene and the Ibom Specialty Hospital, ISH with 25-bed capacity equipped with modern facilities.”