SOME staff in the office of the Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam
Abba Kyari have said that they were living in fears since their
principal tested positive for COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.
Recall
that the Chief of Staff reportedly tested positive for the dreaded
disease and had gone for self-isolation where he is receiving treatment.
It was reported that some staff in his office that had directt contact with him also tested positive for the virus.
However,
majority of the staff in his office who proceeded on self-isolation in
compliance with the directives of the Nigeria Center for Disease
Control, NCDC, have claimed that they are still waiting to be tested for
COVID-19 pandemic.
Some of them who spoke to Vanguard on the
condition of anonymity said that they were now living in fears as the
NCDC has not reached out to them for test.
A source in the
presidency and specifically at the Chief of Staff office said, “We are
now in God’s hands. Some of us have even volunteered to be tested but
the NCDC is saying that it is only when one manifests the symptoms that
they will test him.
” It is only God that will help us including
you the journalists that cover the State House. Maybe what they are
saying is that if anyone has the virus, let the person die and this has
brought a lot of fear everywhere.
“Even people have started to be
afraid of the test kits because of the kind of information out there
that the kits for the test are infested with the virus. This has even
made it impossible for people to go out again for the test.
“The
only consolation we have now is that the whole office has been
fumigated, that settles everything,” the Presidency source said.