Fayemi suspends security guard for downplaying COVID-19 measures
Kayode Fayemi, governor of Ekiti, has suspended a security guard for allegedly trivalising COVID-19 measures.
The security guard was said to have downplayed measures to contain the disease in a video that went viral on social media.
The video was on a retired civil servant who denied his son access to the house after the young man returned to Ekiti from Lagos — in violation of lockdown measures.
In a statement, Muyiwa Olumilua, the state commissioner for information, said the security man was attached to the Fajuyi Pavilion where matters of lockdown violators were being handled.
He said the statements of the security man who recorded the video do not reflect the capacity or preparedness of the state task force to combat the virus.
The commissioner said the official “has since been suspended pending further investigations for acting outside the jurisdiction of his scope of authority”.
He commended the man who denied his son entry into the house pending his isolation for 14 days.
“The attention of the Ekiti State COVID-19 task force has been drawn to a video clip in circulation where a man refused to allow his son, who just returned from a trip outside the state into his house until he had been isolated for 14 days as stipulated by the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control protocol to prevent community spread of COVID-19 in Ekiti State,” the statement read.
“We implore members of the public to emulate the patriotic zeal of Mr Adeoye, and promptly report to the Ekiti State COVID-19 task force any out of-state traveler who sneaks into their neighbourhood, or places of abode. This is to safeguard against the likely health hazard that such returnees portend for the larger society.
“The actions or misstatements of the security man that recorded the video which has gone viral does not reflect the capacity or preparedness of the state task force to combat the COVID-19 virus. He has since been suspended pending further investigations for acting outside the jurisdiction of his scope of authority.
“The security man who recorded the encounter is neither a health worker, nor qualified or authorised to determine the health status of the young man. So, none of his actions or misstatements reflect the capacity or preparedness of the state task force to combat the COVID-19 virus.
“Adeoye epitomizes the Ekiti ethos of selflessness, which places greater premium on the collective good of the society above personal and emotional considerations. This is the core of the value orientation policy of the Dr Kayode Fayemi administration.”
…protocol for preventing community spread of #COVID19 in Ekiti State.
— EKITI COVID19 UPDATES (@Ekiti_COVID19) April 30, 2020
Mr Adeoye epitomizes the Ekiti ethos of selflessness, which places greater premium on the collective good of the society above personal and emotional considerations. This is the core of the Values Orientation policy of the Fayemi-led Administration.
— EKITI COVID19 UPDATES (@Ekiti_COVID19) April 30, 2020
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The security man who recorded the encounter is neither a health worker, nor qualified or authorized to determine the health status of the young man. So, none of his actions or misstatements reflect the capacity or preparedness of the State Taskforce to combat the #COVID19 virus.
Advertisement— EKITI COVID19 UPDATES (@Ekiti_COVID19) April 30, 2020
Following the encounter, the young man has been in the custody of the State for the past 4 days, and has since been taken to one of the designated quarantine centres, where he would be for 14 days, in line with laid down procedure that dictates that […]
— EKITI COVID19 UPDATES (@Ekiti_COVID19) April 30, 2020
His samples will also be taken for testing in order to ensure he has not been infected in the course of his travels to high incidence areas of the country.
— EKITI COVID19 UPDATES (@Ekiti_COVID19) April 30, 2020
This is to safeguard against the likely health hazard that such returnees portend for the larger society.
Signed
Aare Muyiwa Olumilua,
Honourable Commissioner for Information and Values Orientation.— EKITI COVID19 UPDATES (@Ekiti_COVID19) April 30, 2020
Nigeria has recorded 1,728 COVID-19 cases, out of which eight cases are in Ekiti.
Of the total figure, 307 patients have been discharged while 51 persons have died from the virus.
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