The Director-General of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General, Shuaibu Ibrahim, has debunked the report that a top officer posted to Kano Orientation Camp died of COVID-19 in the camp.
According to the DG the top officer did not die in the camp but in an isolation center.
Ibrahim in an interview with Channels on Wednesday explained that the officer was tested before he entered the camp and was taken to the isolation center after he tested positive and eventually died in isolation.
” First and foremost, it’s not true that the resident officer died in camp. In line with the COVID-19 guildeline, all prospective corps members and camp officials that were invited for the orientation exercise were tested. It’s mandatory that all must be tested, and only those negative are allowed to the camp while those positive are taken away by the NCDC for treatment and that’s what happened.
“The officer concerned just like any other NYSC officials underwent the test and when he was positive he was taken by the NCDC to Kano State isolation center and that was where, unfortunately, he passed on, not in the camp,” the DG explained.
According to him, NYSC orientation camps across the country are supervised by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
“We were the first agency to give NCDC our modalities for camp re-opening and they looked at it critically along with the PTF and the approval was granted.
“Even I was tested along with my officials. None of our officers died in the camp,” the NYSC DG maintained.
