Plateau State governor, Lalong
By Raymond Gukas, Jos
Residents in parts of Jos, Plateau State capital, are getting disenchanted with the way the fight against COVID-19 is being handled.
So far, no fewer than 20 calls from different locations are alleged to have been ignored by the committee saddled with prompt responses to complaints about suspected persons who entered the state in the lockdown period from “high infectious locations ” in the country.
it was gathered that in this frustration, calls and text messages to the state Commissioner of Health, Dr. Nimkong Lar Ndam were ignored, even when the situation room confirmed it has generated tickets for calls received for prompt response by the NCDC which had assured on rapid responses.
A resident of Angwan Rukuba in Jos North Local Government Area who pleaded anonymity confirmed this story when residents of his location became agitated over the return of one of their neighbours and a worker in Kano in the middle of the lockdown and was not quarantined.
He told Apex News Exclusive that “people in Angwan Rukuba new road have been panicking since one of our neighbours entered the area from Kano state, where he works.
“Because of this, I took the courage to report to the situation room for a quick response, but it’s two days now, no one has responded.”
According to him, he got the health Commissioner’s number and he put a call across for possible intervention and the call has yet to generate any response including a text message.
About two days earlier, residents of Dadin Kowa in Jos South Local Government Area were said to have reported something similar, yet it was ignored until the youths in the area almost got physical with some people who found themselves in the locality from an unknown destination.
Efforts to get confirmation or denial from the COVID-19 committee also failed, even when the people were responding to Governor, Simon Lalong’s request to “see something and say something.”
However, there had been protest at some isolation centres, where people who had spent the mandatory period of isolation where not released after their status has been certified clean.
While some have been complaining of hunger, the state palliative committee has promised to reach them when the palliatives are received.
