JUST IN: Gunmen disrupt FMC Lokoja staff’s COVID-19 media parley

Some gunmen, on Wednesday, disrupted a media parley planned by staff of the Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja, Kogi State capital.

The press parley had been called by organisers to pressure the federal Government into establishing a COVID-19 screening centre in the state.

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In a tweet from his ‘Fisayo Soyombo on his verified twitter handle, @fisayosoyombo, he wrote, “Dozens of plain-clothed gunmen who arrived in three white Hilux vans have just finished terrorising staff of the Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja, who were planning a press conference/protest to pressure FG into establishing a COVID-19 screening centre in the state.”