Kogi state has been classified as “high risk” for COVID-19
because of its failure to acknowledge the existence of the disease, report
tests or build isolation centres.
The presidential task force (PTF) on COVID-19, which
announced the classification on Monday, warned Nigerians to be ware of visiting
the state.
Yahaya Bello, the governor of Kogi state is well
known for refusing to acknowledge the existence of the disease which he calls a
“fraud”.
He does not wear a face mask except when visiting President
Muhammadu Buhari.
Recently, he said the COVID-19 vaccine is “meant to kill
us”, asking people not to receive it.
Mukhtar Muhammad, the national incident manager of the PTF,
said at the media briefing that Kogi was not testing at all.
“We have states where data is not coming forth. If we don’t
test, your data will not be analysed and if your data is not analysed, we won’t
know the level of the pandemic in your state,” he said.
“Notable among the states that have not been reporting
adequately include Yobe, Jigawa, Zamfara and Kebbi and, of course, Kogi that
has not been reporting at all.
“States that are not testing are probably at much more higher risk than the states that are currently known as high burdened states.”
For Kogi, which is not conducting tests at all, Muhammad
said it is at the “high risk”.
“A state that is not testing at all is an absolute high risk
for Nigerians to go there because there is no testing facility and even if you
fall sick, there is no isolation center and they don’t even acknowledge that
the disease exists. So for that reason, we put that state at the top of high
risk state,” he said.
He also said there are 22 high-burdened local government
areas within 13 states in the country that
contributed over 95 percent of the cases recorded in the last six weeks.
The states and local governments he listed are:
- Nkanu West (Enugu)
- Abuja Municipal (FCT)
- Gwagwalada (FCT)
- Gombe (Gombe)
- Chikun (Kaduna)
- Kaduna North
- Kaduna South
- Nassarawa (Kano)
- Katsina (Katsina)
- Ilorin South (Kwara)
- Ilorin West (Kwara)
- Eti-Osa (Lagos)
- Ikeja (Lagos)
- Kosofe (Lagos)
- Lagos Mainland (Lagos)
- Keffi (Nasarawa)
- Lafia (Nasarawa)
- Ibadan North (Oyo)
- Jos North (Plateau,
- Jos South (Plateau)
- Port Harcourt (Rivers)
- Wamako (Sokoto)
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