The two sons of late Dr. Yakubu Aliyu, a practicing medical doctor in Daura, Katsina State have alleged that the reports of their positive status for Coronavirus were manipulated by National Centre for Disease and Control (NCDC).
According to the two children who spoke in separate videos claimed that their father could not have tested positive and died of COVID-19.
It could be recalled that the Katsina State Government had earlier attributed the death of the medical doctor, Aliyu Yakubu, to coronavirus.
The deceased, aged 60, an indigene of Kogi state had died at the Nigeria Air Force Reference Hospital, Daura last week.
Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina had said the deceased, owned a private hospital in Daura and had visited his home state, Kogi, from where he traveled to Lagos some weeks ago.
However, Mr. Nuhu Aliyu, one of the sons of the late medical doctor accused health officials of the National Centre for Disease and Control (NCDC) of manipulating the sample result of their father’s coronavirus test.
The son in a viral video described the report that his father contacted and died of coronavirus as fake, urging the general public to disregard the fake news and misinformation.
He further averred that though personnel of NCDC in Katsina State stormed their house on Tuesday and took their samples for medical analysis, they were surprised to hear that three of them have also tested positive in the social media.
According to him, “They have already concluded plans to come and pick me, my mother and brother for observation. But we don’t know where they intend to take us to, the kind of food they will give us and also the medication. That is why I am shooting this small video in case anything bad happens to us.’’
Also in another amateur video, Abdulmalik Aliyu, another son of the late physician, said he also recently received news from his friends that he has COVID-19, even while the NCDC officials are yet to call him and confirmed his status. Abdulmalik said though their father just passed away, he did not die as a result of COVID-19.
In his words, “Our late father did not die because he was infested with any coronavirus. He never had contact with COVID-19 patients, in the first place. While those he even had contact with have all been traced and none was said to have suffered from coronavirus. So they just capitalized on the fact that he is no more to lie about what killed him.’’
Just like his brother, he also urged the public to report his video to security agencies, should anything tragic happens to them.
In a reaction to the allegation of manipulation of results of COVID-19, a spokesperson of NCDC, Chukwuemeka Oguanuo told PRNigeria that the issue of manipulation has been cleared severally by authorities including the Director-General of the Centre during the daily presidential Media Conference.
In an SMS, Oguanuo said the COVID-19 testing labs are accredited and provide verified results, “Some people can be in denial of their status, it’s psychological.
“The State Ministry of Health or the State Government should provide an update on this. They are aware.’’
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