Twitter Users Call Out EFCC Over Health Minister’s Appeal To Nigerians To Donate Buildings For Isolation Centres

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Minister of health, Osagie Ehanire
Minister of health, Osagie Ehanire

Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire has appealed to Nigerians to donate their buildings as isolation centres.

Ehanire made the appeal at the press briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 in Abuja on Thursday.

He said as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) aims to test two million people in the next three months more buildings would be needed as isolation centres.

The minister stated,

I have appealed to citizens to make their property available temporarily for this purpose. I am sure that after that, there are many property owners who will come up and donate to state governments for a period of time to be used for this function. We are not out of space now but we are making the appeal ahead of time so that we have these facilities ready.

Ehanire also stated that test capacity of the 15 laboratories in Nigeria had reached 2500.

He, therefore, called on Nigerians to make their buildings available as isolation centres.

This appeal, however did not sit well with many Nigerians, as they took to Twitter to express their disapproval over the request.

Many of them have called out the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to make available to the NCDC several numbers of building seized and sealed in the country over the years.

See some reactions below;

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