The Kogi State Police Command on Wednesday confirmed the attack at the Federal Medical Centre Lokoja by unknown gunmen.
The gunmen who stormed the place in large numbers carted away laptops and phones of staffers and patients.
Control TV gathered that the gunmen who appeared plain-clothed, used a van to barricade the entrance of the hospital while two other vans drove in to cause mayhem.
the gunmen shot sporadically into the air to scare people away, then went to the records and admin department where they seized laptops and destroyed a few things. They ransacked the Medical Director’s office, too.
The hospital staffs were planning a press conference to pressure the Federal Government into establishing a COVID-19 screening centre in the state when the incident took place.
According to residents the gunmen operated for about 30 minutes unhindered
The hospital associations and the state government have been at loggerheads over the status of COVID-19 in the state.
As the state government insists there is no confirmed case of the viral disease in the state but the management of the hospital has disagreed.
the state governor, Yahaya Bello, on Tuesday, June 30 said Nigerians are being made to accept the reality of COVID-19 by force He said the virus was created to shorten the lifestyle of the people while asking residents not to accept what he described as cut and paste COVID-19.
Early last week the state’s Chief Justice died as a result of COVID-19 complications but the Governor has insisted that his deat has nothing to do with Covid-19 as there are no coronavirus in the state.
(C) Control TV 2020.
