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Emotion High As AIT Founder & 7 Family Members Test Positive To COVID-19 In Abuja
Emotion High As AIT Founder & 7 Family Members Test Positive To COVID-19 In Abuja
The founder of Daar Communications Plc, owners of Raypower FM and Africa International Television (AIT), Chief Raymond Dokpesi, has tested positive for COVID-19.
His wife and three children as well as four other relations also tested positive.
One of his sons, Dokpesi Jnr, had been confirmed positive for the virus and admitted to Isolation Centre.
It is believed that the test on his father was part of the standard contact tracing efforts to know the status of those he had been in contact with.
A statement on Friday evening by the organisation 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:
“1) High chief Aleogho Dokpesi ( His Father/ Founder DAAR Communications PLC)
2) Our chairman’s wife
3) His 3 Children
4) some Relatives A total of 8 They are all presently on their way to the Federal Government isolation centre at Gwagwalada in Abuja.
“The Board, Management and the entire staff wish them their prayers and the grace of the good Lord for speedy recovery from the COVID 19 pandemic.”
Kingsley Ogubor
May 2, 2020 at 12:06 AM
Did he travel to Kano why such a high infection rate
Metu Nyetu
May 2, 2020 at 5:34 AM
TOO BAD! THIS CORONA VIRUS IS never really tiring, just like Boko Haram. Everyday you hear one new case. Boko Haram has even left off their incessant attacks in “honour” of this Bigger Boko Haram.
I WISH the Dokpesis quick recovery! And while I type this, my mind recalls our one and only Patrick Obaihagbon, the only grammatical principality sitting at the highest echelon of intentional circumlocutions, confounding even the owners and inventors of English Language. And I wonder, why has he not come out to describe one thing at all about this deadly disease? Or is he too afraid to joke with it(after all, all his comments about anything are jokes)? Or has he spoken, but I missed it?
Ace
May 2, 2020 at 1:34 PM
We continue to pray for God’s protection over us, and cover all of us with the blood of Jesus. As it is we don’t know how far the virus has gone deep in our midst, we don’t know who is carrying the virus not until it manifests.
I pray full recovery for the Dokpesi’s household, and every other person’s going through the pandemic.