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COVID-19: Govs ask FG for palliatives

Godwin Akor, Makurdi

The Nigerian Governors’ Forum has appealed to the Federal Government to extend palliatives to the states to enable them contend with the challenges posed by the Coronavirus pandemic.

Deputy governor of Benue State, Engr. Benson Abounu, made this known while inaugurating local government chapters of the Coronavirus Action Committees at the Government House, Makurdi, on Tuesday.

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Engr. Abounu said the governors decided to make the request while discussing the effects of COVID-19 pandemic on the various states on the internet.

He said the palliatives would enable the state’s to extend palliatives to their citizens as COVID-19 patients increase across the country.

The deputy governor, who is the chairman of the state’s action committee on COVID-19, was reacting to the request made by the Tor Tiv, Orchivirigh (Prof.) James Ayatse, to the effect that palliatives should be given to Benue people to cushion effects of the pandemic on them.

The deputy governor said as soon as assistance was given to the state, same would be extended to the citizens and assured that sanitizers and face masks would be immediately distributed to all the local governments for onward distribution to the people in remote parts of the state.

Abounu said council chairmen would be chairmen of the local government action committees on Coronavirus, emphasizing that second class chiefs and directors of general services and administration, DGSAs, would be members and secretaries of the committees respectively.

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He gave details of other members of the committees and asked the people of Ushongo Local Government Area to advise the lady who participated in the treatment of the COVID-19 patient, Susan Okpe, at the Cottage Hospital, in Makurdi, to willingly present herself for tests.

Engr. Abounu stated further that the propaganda being carried out in the social media that Susan Okpe was being neglected was false pointing out that every facility provided for her at the Benue State University Teaching Hospital were new.

According to him, her sample was being taken to Abuja today for further tests as her condition, especially coughing, was beginning to improve.

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