COVID-19: AIT risks shutdown as Founder, wife, others test positive
Health officials in the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), as well as Epidemiologists from the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), have concluded plans to screen the headquarters of the Daar Communications Plc, owners of RayPower and African Independent Television (AIT) in Abuja after the outfit’s founder, High Chief Raymond Dokpesi and some members of his family tested positive for the Novel Coronavirus.
However, the organisation in a statement late Friday said its founder, his daughter-in-law, three children and other relatives had tested positive for COVID-19. The statement was silent on the number of staff who had tested positive.
The statement reads: “Following the test that was carried out on our Chairman- Chief Raymond Dokpesi Jnr on Thursday, April 23, 2020, by the NCDC which eventually proved positive and his subsequent admission into the isolation centre on Friday, April 24, 2020; we wish to state that in conformity with the Federal Government protocol on the COVID-19 administration and management, his entire household and those that had contacts with him were subsequently subjected to the test and with so much emotional pains, we hereby announce that the under listed have equally been confirmed positive: High chief Aleogho Dokpesi ( His Father/ Founder DAAR Communications PLC),l; Our chairman’s wife; His 3 Children; some Relatives. A total of 8
“They are all presently on their way to the Federal Government isolation centre at Gwagwalada in Abuja.
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