The Governor of Kogi State, Mr. Yahaya Bello has placed Kabba/Bunu Local Government Area of the state on absolute lockdown following the positive testing of two persons in the council area for Coronavirus.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) had on Wednesday declared that two persons from the state, the Chief Imam of Kabba and his son, tested positive to the virus.
This however increased the frosty relationship between the NCDC and the state government, as officials of the state government, including the Commissioner for Health said the position of the the NCDC was wrong.
The state governor, however on Monday at the Government House, Lokoja, said the state was forced to take the lockdown decision as the situation had snowballed into a political angle.
According to Mr Bello, effective from Tuesday midnight, all the communities from the area where the patients reside should stay indoors permanently for two weeks. The governor also ordered all the doctors who have had contacts with the patients to go into self-isolation.
He however maintained that the state was still free from the virus until the agency claims are verified.