Oyo discharges two Coronavirus patients 

Two confirmed Coronavirus patients were discharged on Sunday after receiving their second negative test results in Oyo State.

Governor Seyi Makinde who disclosed through his official twitter handle said this brings the number of discharged cases to nine.

Makinde ,Head of the COVID-19 task force in the pacesetter state stated “so, there are currently six active cases in Oyo State”.

Meanwhile,the executive chairman of the Broadcasting Corporation of Oyo State, BCOS, Dotun Oyelade, said the Federal government relief committee handling the distribution of relief materials meant as palliatives for vulnerable Nigerians has been put to task over the method of carrying out it’s assignment.

In a statement, Oyelade expressed the frustration of the corporation in tracing the households and individuals who were reported to have benefitted from the palliatives in Oyo State.

He recalled that the relief committee headed by the minister of humanitarian affairs, Sadiya Farouq, posted that 28,282 households and 99,569 individuals have benefitted from the exercise in Oyo state, but all spirited efforts made by the corporation’s news apparatus to verify the figures and identify the beneficiaries have not been successful since the announcement last week.

“It is imperative that due diligence must be done in assisting journalists to identity the mode of payment and the criteria used that has made it impossible to trace the so-called beneficiaries.

According to him, from Ibadan to Igboho, Ikoyi-Ile, Iganna, Ayete, Ido and Egbeda, BCOS news search reveals that no single individual or household in Oyo state has so far received any palliative from any federal government agency since the outbreak of coronavirus in the country.

Oyelade said that it was obvious that the Federal Government Relief Committee was only distributing palliatives to households and individuals on pages of newspapers,other mainstream media and social media.

REMI FEYISIPO, Ibadan.