Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister Not Down With COVID-19

Neither Nigeria’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama nor his Personal Assistant is down with Coronavirus, his Special Assistant on Media Affairs has clarified. Sarah Sanda, the Minister’s media aide said in a statement Sunday there is no such reality beyond the imagination of people fabricating and circulating what she calls a malicious report in social and traditional media to the effect that the two cases of Covid-19 claimed for Enugu State were the Minister and the PA.
According to the spokeswoman, the Minister and his aide were actually in Abuja at the time in question. Furthermore, as a member of the Presidential Taskforce on Covid-19, the Minister, like all other members, were recently tested and found to be negative, Sanda added, concluding that the authors of misinformation could only have been out to embarrass, spread alarm and panic during a national emergency.
“For that reason as well as to curb this kind of criminal behaviour, the matter has been brought to the attention of the law enforcement agencies for investigation and severe sanctions as deterrence for the future”, said the ministerial media aide in the March 29th, 2020 statement.