Bayelsa Civil Liberty Organization Calls For COVID-19 Testing Centres In The State, Urges Gov. Diri To Station Mobile Court At The Toll Gate

Bayelsa Civil Liberty Organization Calls For COVID-19 Testing Centres In The State, Urges Gov. Diri To Station Mobile Court At The Toll Gate

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YENAGOA______ The Bayelsa State branch of the Civil Liberties Organization ,CLO, has called on the State Government and the Nigeria Centre For Disease Control, NCDC, to set up  Coronavirus Testing Centres in the state.

The state chairman of CLO, Chief Nengi James-Eriworio, who stated this following the confirmation of a Covid-19 positive index case in the state on Sunday, said the setting up of the centres was necessary to avoid disputations of test results following the rejection of the results by the Bayelsa index patient.

James-Eriworio, who is also the National Coordinator of Association for Rural Chiefs, expressed the worry that the transportation of samples for test in other states was not healthy, stating that it was high risk which with harzardous implications and could results in mixeup in the results of patients.

He tasks the state government and the State Covid-19 Task Force to expedite action in tracing all contacts of the index case, just as he also tasked on the readily dissemination of timely information and sensitzation regarding the index case to the public to avoid panic.

He further called on the state government to stationed the mobile courts at the toll gate leading to the state capital to try and prosecute offenders of the government lockdown directives.