As fear increases that the late Commissioner for Environment in Abia State, Dr Solomon Ogunji may have died of COVID-19 complications, the state governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, his deputy, Ude Oko-Chukwu and members of the state executive council have submitted their samples to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control for COVID-19 test.
This is in line with the earlier directive issued by the governor earlier.
This was made known to ABN TV on Monday in a release signed by the state Commissioner for Information, Chief John Okiyi-Kalu, stated this on Monday.
He reiterated that the decision became imperative after it was discovered that the late exco and member of the Inter-ministerial Committee on COVID-19, Chief Solomon Ogunji, who died on Saturday, May 23, 2020, contracted the disease before he passed on.
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Okiyi-Kalu said, “Following the outcome of tests conducted on close family members of the late member of the state executive council and member of the Inter-ministerial Committee on COVID-19, Abia State Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, directed members of the committee and the exco who might have recently come in contact with the late commissioner to immediately Submit Samples and undergo COVID-19 tests and isolate themselves thereafter pending the outcome of the tests.”
About 33 members of the state executive council on Monday volunteered themselves for sample collection, which a source said was done at the state Commissioners Quarters, Umuahia.
Apart from the Commissioner’s death, no casualty has been recorded from the COVID-19 pandemic in the state.
He, however, did not test positive before passing on.
