Sources have revealed that the mysterious deaths of the acting Executive Director of Finance of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Ibanga Bassey Etang,and the Chairman of Asari Toru Local Government Council, Odiari Princewill, are linked to the dreaded novel coronavirus.
The duo died suddenly yesterday, at different locations in Rivers State. Close associates of Etang, said he had displayed symptoms of COVID-19, before giving up the ghost. While Princewill was hurriedly buried this morning at the Port Harcourt Cemetery under strict supervision.
Princewill was buried by men who were fully kitted with personal protective gadgets, which gives credence to the reports making the rounds.
Meanwhile a memo signed on behalf of the Interim Management committee,by Silas Anyanwu, disclosed that the commission has been shutdown for two weeks to enable staff go on self isolation, as preventive measure to forestall the transmission of the virus.
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