Journalist Warns Imo Residents About Alleged Multiple Suspected Coronavirus Cases

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Imo state Governor, Hope Uzodinma

Self-acclaimed investigative journalist, Kemi Olunloyo, has warned residents of Imo state to practice self-isolation and social distancing, alleging that there are multiple Coronavirus suspected cases in the state.

Olunloyo stated this in a series of tweets via her official Twitter page on March 31.

In her first tweet regarding the issue, she posted that;

She further tweeted that Governor of Imo state, Hope Uzodimma ‘lied’ in his weekly address of residents that there are no cases of COVID-19 in the state.

Olunloyo added that from the time of the governor’s weekly address to the time director-general of Nigeria Centre of Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe visited President Buhari last week, there was allegedly a 2nd death case, who was an indigene of Imo state that visited his village.

According to Olunloyo, a family member of the 2nd death case revealed that he is a business who came back from one of Coronavirus high-risks countries in the world.

The alleged victim according to Olunloyo, is identified as Christogonus A. Osuagwu, who fell extremely ill on returning to Lagos but refused a Coronavirus test.

The self-acclaimed journalist added that;

By the time Late Osuagwu arrived in Owerri village Mbaise, he had unknowingly infected his wife, kids, staff including his Fancy hotel business exposing guests to the virus. All the guests had to be quarantined, some on the premises. Driver also infected.

Olunloyo went on to accuse Imo state Governor, Hope Uzodinma and DG of NCDC, Dr. Chikwe of exposing Imo state to Coronavirus by allowing the man travel from Lagos to Abuja without carrying out a Coronavirus test on him. 

She also suggested that there are several cases in Imo state, stressing that;

While narrating how the alleged Imo state victim died, Olunloyo said that;

Kemi Olunloyo in her tweets also called for an investigation into the death of a Nigerian paralympic gold medalist, Ndidi Nwosu, who died in Owerri, Imo state on Wednesday, April 1 of lung infection. 

 
 
 
 
 
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#BREAKING I want the Imo Health department to Investigate Ndidi’s death.Yes she had underlying health issues. She died in Owerri a state that may have harboured people with viral loads of #COVID19. I’ve been inundated by people who died of other things secondary to #CoronaVirus. Their families demanding me to retract which is never happening. Wake up from this ignorance. #Covid19 attacks people with respiratory problems and weak immune systems FIRST🆘☠️. May she rest in peace 🙏 #Repost @instablog9ja with @repostsaveapp ・・・ Nigerian paralympic gold medalist, Ndidi Nwosu, dies. Ndidi Nwosu, who was Nigeria’s Powerlifting Gold medalist at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio De Janeiro, is dead. According to Brila Fm, she died in Owerri Imo state on March 1, 2020, following complications arising from a lung infection. The news was broken by former President of the Nigeria Powerlifting Federation, Ms Queen Uboh. According to her: “Ndidi sustained an injury from the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia. She was a heavyweight powerlifter. . I had actually assisted by paying for two of the surgeries she had in Owerri but after the surgery, she was never the same again. She had been off and on in the hospital and that was why she couldn’t take part in this last World Cup. Even before she died, she appeared to me in the dream. She told me not to leave her family and that I was still her mummy despite not being the Powerlifting President anymore. So when the husband called me to inform me of her passing, I knew already because she had appeared to me in the dream”. The former Powerlifting President revealed that after the surgery, she sent some money to Ndidi Nwosu to start a petty business but she couldn’t manage it with her poor health. “She called me to say she couldn’t sustain the business because she couldn’t move about anymore and moreover, she was using the money to buy drugs”. Nwosu, who also won gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia, was also a world record holder which she set in Australia after lifting 120kg as well and set a new record at the 2016 Paralympics in Rio De Janeiro after she won Gold in her category. . .

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These allegations by Kemi Olunloyo are coming 4 days after Today Ng reported that there are three suspected cases of Coronavirus in Owerri, Imo state.

The state governor Hope Uzodinma had ordered the sealing of the Fancy Hotels Ltd located at Road 7, Imo Umuguma Housing in Owerri West.

Unconfirmed reports and rumours making rounds in the state capital indicated that a guest at the hotel had slumped and died of the suspected coronavirus, causing panic among the residents of Imo Housing Umuguma and its environs.

A member of the committee of the state COVID-19 response committee and the state chairman of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Dr Kyrian Duruewuru, however, dispelled the rumours as “not true”.

Also regarding the rumoured claim of suspected Coronavirus in the state, Imo State Commissioner for Information, Hon Declan Emelumba, said that the governor had ordered the hotel sealed because the management had flouted the directives of the state government that all hotels in the state should take the temperature of all the guests who are coming to the hotel as well as to provide hand sanitizers.

He also dismissed the rumour that a guest of the hotel had died of the suspected coronavirus.

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